The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 253
The Messiah and his Second Coming cross and also the bodies of the two thieves. 253. Another heavenly intervention that occurred was that when Pilate sat in the Judgement seat his wife sent him word:. Have you nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. (Matthew, 27:19). The appearance of the angel to the wife of Pilate in her dream was a sure sign that it was God's design not to let. Jesus suffer death on the cross. . . . . Another piece of evidence furnished by the Gospels in support of the deliverance of Jesus from death on the cross is his long journey to Galilee, which he undertook after emerging from the sepulchre. On Sunday morning he first met Mary Magdalene who immediately notified the disciples that Jesus was alive, but they did not believe her. Then he was seen by two of the disciples who were going into the country. Then he appeared to the eleven when they were at supper and rebuked them over their lack of faith and their hard-heartedness. See Mark 16:914. When Jesus met the two disciples near Emmaus, which is at a distance of three or four miles from. Jerusalem, he desired to go forward but they stopped him to spend the night with them and he supped with them. . See Luke, 24:13-31. It is thus obvious that all these incidents like eating and drinking and sleeping and going on a long journey to Galilee, a distance of seventy miles from Jerusalem, all of which are relevant to a mortal body, were utterly inconsistent with a glorious body with which Jesus is imagined to have been invested after death. Despite the many changes that have found their way in the different accounts of the Gospels due to