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? 232 he was false [Quran 3:56]. In this way the Holy Prophet saw ful- filled Jesus’ prophecy of the Promised Comforter: …he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me… [ John 16:13–14] Jesus as alluded to the same message of the Quran when he stated that the sign of Jonah as was the only sign for his generation [Matt 16:4]. Just as Jonah as appeared to drown, so did Jesus as appear to die on the cross; and just as Jonah as survived, ‘rising from the drowned’, so too would Jesus as survive, ‘rising from the dead’. Although the initial statements of the Holy Prophet saw and the Promised Messiah as were primarily attributable to their rev- elations, God Himself would reveal additional evidence in the future to further corroborate the Quranic statement that Jesus as survived the Crucifixion. In addition to Maulana Jalal-ud-Din Shams’ research, one recent example of such evidence includes the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library in 1945 consisting of over 50 texts, many of which were thought to have been destroyed prior to this extraordinary discovery. According to best-selling author and Princeton professor Elaine Pagels, these texts date to the earliest centuries of Christianity and reveal a far greater range of Christian diversity as the faith struggled to identify what would eventually become its Orthodoxy. These texts—remaining virtually untouched for 1500 years—were translated in the 1970s and present a rich source to cross-examine modern-day Christian