Three Questions by a Christian and their Answers — Page 53
53 of the Jews, but even this he was not granted, and his prayer went unheard. Then, after he had been put on the cross, the Jews, in all sincerity, said that they would all believe in him if he could only come down alive from the cross, But even this he could not do. It is clear from these instances that, as far as the revealed text of the Gospels goes, Jesus was not a man of miracles. Any statements, which might lead us to think that Jesus as showed some miracles, are in fact multi-faceted and admit of more than one interpretation. There is no reason whatsoever to take them literally, or to stretch their meaning so far as to associate them with the miracles related by the writers of the Gospels on their own authority. There is not a single statement uttered by Jesus as himself, which manifestly proves the occurrence and existence of those miracles. On the contrary, his own emphatic statements show that not a single miracle was ever manifested by him. 49 I cannot understand why Christians do not trust Jesus’ own 'revealed' words. Why do they rely upon other statements and stretch them more than they deserve, when, according to their own admission, they are not revealed, and have been included in the Gospels as historical narratives, and are altogether unconnected with revelation, and are com- pletely at variance with the revealed statements. Hence, 49 The Holy Quran testifies only to the miracles of the Messiah who never laid claim to divinity, for there have been many Messiahs, and there will be many more. Also, the Quranic testimony admits of more than one interpretation, but it certainly does not testify to whatever has been written by the Gospel writers. [Author]