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manner the Jews attempted to kill Jesus on the cross in order to frame him accursed. God delivered him from the accursed death and brought him closer than ever to Him. In short, Jesus' death on the. Cross is not sustained by convincing evidence. . Before I put forth the event of the curcifixion as it was, I would like to furnish from the gospels those arguments which prove that Jesus did not die on the cross. (1) The Torah says about the impostor prophet: "-but that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your. God, who brought you out of the land of. Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you-. " (Deut. 13: 5). . And again: "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God; you shall not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance. " (Deut. 21: 22-23). . Jesus was a claimant to prophethood. The Jews dubbed him impostor-God forbid. Granted that the Jews crucified him and he subsequently died 39