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8naturally induce them to believe that their Lord was the person alluded to by the Baptist.However, there is another difficulty in the way. How can a person rely on the testimony of a book admittedly filled up with folklore? The genuineness of the Bible has been universally questioned. Without going into the question of its genuineness, we may at least say that we cannot depend on its statements concerning Jesus(pbuh) and his miracles. Some even go so far as to assert that his existence as an historical person is questionable, and that on the authority of the Gospels it would be dangerous to arrive at any apparently safe conclusion in this matter. A Christian of the Fundamentalist type cannot well say anything against my statement of the case. Ifa“stray sentence” and detached words in the Old Testament can be singled out by synoptic writers as applicable to Jesus (pbuh), the comments of the learned writer of these erudite and absorbing articles must command every respect and appreciation even from the Clergy. I write in the same strain, but I have tried to base my arguments on portions of the Bible, which hardly allow of any linguistic dispute. I would not go to Latin, Greek, or Aramaic, for that would be useless: I just give the following quotation in the very words of the Revised Version as published by the British and Foreign Bible Society.We read the following words in the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter xviii. Verse 18: “I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth. If these words do not apply to Muhammad (pbuh), they remain unfulfilled. Jesus (pbuh) himself never claimed to be the Prophet alluded to. Even his disciples were of the same opinion: They looked to the second coming of Jesus (pbuh) for the fulfilment of the prophecy. [1] So far, it is undisputed that the first coming of[1] “21 whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,