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In addition, the Jews were perfectly right to refuse him
that title and office. They were certainly wrong to deny
him his prophet hood, and criminal to have shed his
innocent blood - as they and the Christians believe.
“The Assembly of the Great Synagogue,” after the
death of Simeon the just in 310 B.C., was replaced by
the “Sanhedrin,” whose president had the surname of
“Nassi” or Prince. It is astonishing that the “Nassi”
who passed the judgment against Jesus (pbuh) , saying:
“It is more profitable that one man should die rather
than the whole nation should be destroyed,” [1] was a
prophet! [2] If he were a prophet, how was it that he did
not recognize the prophetic mission or the Messianic
character of “the Messiah”?

Here are, then the principal reasons why Jesus (pbuh)
was not “the Son of Man” nor the Apocalyptic Messiah:

(a) A messenger of God is not commissioned to
prophesy about himself as a personage of some future
epoch, or to foretell his own reincarnation and thus
present himself as the hero in some great future drama of
the world. Jacob (pbuh) prophesied about “the Apostle of
Allah,” [3] Moses (pbuh) about a prophet who would come
after him with the Law, and Israel was exhorted to “obey
him; [4] Haggai foretold Ahmad; [5] Malachi predicted the
coming of the “Messenger of the Covenant” and of Elijah;
[6] but none of the prophets ever did prophesy about his
own second coming into the world. What is extremely
abnormal in the case of Jesus (pbuh) is that he is made to
pretend his identity with “the Son of Man,” yet he is unable
to do in the least degree the work that the foretold “Son of

[1] John xi. 50.
[2] Idem, 51.
[3] Gen. xlix. 10.
[4] Deut. xviii. 15
[5] Hag. ii. 7.
[6] Mal. iii. 1, iv. 5.