Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 126
TOWARDS the end of the nineteenth century the Promised. Messiah, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, wrote a book which he called Masih Hindustan Mein (Jesus in India). In this book he gave an account of a grand discovery ―a discovery of interest to all peoples of the world. . From the late 19th century onwards, more and more discoveries began to point to the fact that Jesus Christ did not die on the cross. He was saved from an accursed death. Two. Gospels of the New Testament, Mark and Luke, speak of the. Ascension of Jesus to heaven. But the texts on this point are now generally dismissed as fabrications and fictitious. They are later interpolations; not part of the original text. Christianity today is the most important among the religions of the world, both in respect of its numbers and in respect of its influence over world affairs. Yet it is true that of the life of Jesus we know only a fragment, confined to a brief period of 2-3 years. The rest of Jesus's life remains veiled. . According to the chronology now generally accepted, Jesus was born in 9 B. C. The event of the cross took place in April 33 A. D. From the death on the cross God saved Jesus. What happened after this? Where did Jesus go? How did he pass the rest of his days? What happened to the Holy Mother? How many of the Apostles remained with him? All these are interesting questions. A number of recent studies by European and other scholars leave no doubt that Jesus was taken down alive from the cross, while he was in a state of deep swoon. To cite a few instances, one may refer to Robertson Graves and Joshua Podro's. The Nazarene Gospel Restored (1954), and Jesus in Rome (1957) which treat of this theme and I quote from a note in Jesus in. Rome:. Jesus, though officially crucified in A. D. 30, escaped alive, probably to Parthia, and in A. D. 35 was seen on the road to Damascus by St. Paul-who had been sent there to bring him back for a second crucifixion. St. Ignatius wrote 1 J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (BBC) 1974 INDEX "Jesus Christ". 130