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255religion to call the sinners to repent of their iniquity and wickedness. We quite admit that Jesus (pbuh) was sent only to the “lost sheep of Israel,” to reform and convert them from their sins; and especially to teach them more plainly concerning “the Son of Man” who was to come with power and salvation to restore what was lost and to reconstruct what was ruined; nay, to conquer and destroy the enemies of the true believers. Jesus (pbuh) could not assume for himself that apocalyptic title “the Barnasha,” and then not be able to save his people except Zacchæus, a Samaritan woman, and a few other Jews, including the Apostles, who were mostly slain afterwards on his account. Most probably what Jesus (pbuh) said was “The Son of Man will come to seek and recover what is lost.” For in Muhammad (pbuh) alone the believing Jews as well as the Arabs and other believers found all that was irremediably lost and destroyed - Jerusalem andMakkah, all the promised territories; many truths concerning the true religion; the power and kingdom of God; the peace and blessing that Islam confers in this world and in the next.We cannot afford space for further quotations of the numerous passages in which “the Son of Man” occurs as either the subject or the object or the predicate of the sentence. One more quotation will suffice, namely, “The Son of Man shall be delivered unto the hands of men.”[1] etc., and all the passages where he is made the subject of passion and death. Such utterances are put into the mouth of Jesus (pbuh) by some fraudulent non-Hebrew writer with the object of perverting the truth concerning “the Son of Man” as understood and believe by the Jews, and of making them believe that Jesus (pbuh) of Nazareth was the Apocalyptical triumphant Saviour, but[1] Matt. xvi. 21; xvii. 12, etc.