Jesus In India — Page 64
54 JESUS IN INDIA himself the Messiah, was really God. But because the Jews, after the testimony of the dead, did not believe in Jesus, the Messiah, as we would expect them to do, nor did their hearts soften, rather if anything, they became confirmed in their hard-heartedness, it appears more than probable that the dead did not speak a single favourable word for him. They must have pronounced straight away that this man was making a false claim to Godhood, and was lying against God. That must have been why the Jews did not desist from mischief in spite of the fact that hundreds of thou- sands of men, indeed prophets and apostles had been restored to life. Having 'killed' Jesus, the Messiah, they attempted to kill all others. How can one believe that hundreds of thousands of saints who, right from the time of Adam up to the time of John the Baptist, had been resting in their graves in this holy land, should all be brought back to life; that they should all flock to the city to preach, and everyone of them should stand up and testify before thousands of people that Jesus, the Messiah, was really the Son of God-no, God Himself; that he alone should be worshipped; that the people should renounce their former beliefs, otherwise, they would go to hell, which these saints had witnessed for them- selves! Yet, notwithstanding such excellent evidence and such eye- witness accounts which proceeded from the mouths of hundreds of thousands of dead saints, the Jews should not desist from their denial! My own conscience is certainly not prepared to accept this. Therefore, if hundreds of thousands of saints, prophets and apostles, etc. , who were dead, had really come to life and had vis- ited the city to give evidence, they must undoubtedly have given unfavourable evidence; they could never have borne witness to the divinity of Jesus, the Messiah. This must have been the reason why