Comparing and Contrasting Jesus and Mohammad

All four Gospels describe Jesus in his final week in Jerusalem. During which Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, confronted moneychangers and merchants in the temple, and debated with the high priests who questioned Jesus’ authority. He told his disciples about the coming days and that Jerusalem’s temple would be destroyed. Meanwhile, the chief priests and elders met with high priest Caiaphas, and set plans in motion to arrest Jesus. One of Jesus’ disciples’ betrayed him to the Pharisees for 30 pieces of silver. Jesus took his disciples to pray with him, but they kept falling asleep. Soldiers and officials appeared, and Judas (who betrayed Jesus) was with them. He gave Jesus a kiss on the cheek to help the Pharisee’s know who he was and the soldiers arrested Jesus. One disciple tried to resist the arrest, drew his sword and cutting off an ear of a soldier. Jesus was then interrogated by the high priest, hit and spat upon for not answering. Jesus was mocked, condemned, and beat up in a high court because he stated he was the son of God. Pilate washed his hands of the responsibility of what happened to Jesus, but ordered him to be executed. Jesus hung on a cross for three days, died, was buried in a tomb, and rose again on the third day. With his dying on the cross he took the sin of the world.

Women were the least credible source and least trustworthy at this time so the fact that they were the ones to discover the tomb is prime evidence to the resurrection of Jesus because they were considered not believable. The fact that women were the ones to discover the empty tomb was despised and went against all beliefs of believing women at this time which is why the information deems to be

When Mary Magdalene arrived to tell Peter and the other disciple they got up and ran to the tomb. They desired to see if the report was so. She also returned, anxious to know if anything could be found about where the Lord had been laid. Peter stooped down and looked inside. He saw the linen clothes that were neatly folded and left the tomb wondering what had taken place but believed her report. They did not yet recall the words of Jesus that He would rise again from the dead, so they went away into their own home (John 20:1-10).

The following quotation from The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia describes the final process of a crucifixion:

Since the beginning of the Christian movement, the resurrection of Jesus has been celebrated across Christian traditions and throughout the Church’s history. “If there is one thing that unites Christians across the globe, even if only loosely, it is the resurrection.” (Smith, 2010) As in the other three gospels, the narrator of Mark begins telling his rendition of the resurrection by recounting the visit by Mary Magdalene and her companions to the tomb of Jesus. Mark’s version of the story, however, differs significantly from Luke’s, Matthew’s, or John’s in one important way: the actual resurrection. Upon arriving, the women find the blocking

Muslims believe in four prophets, Adam, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Mohammad was born in Makkah, Arabia (now Mecca, Saudi Arabia) in 570 A.D. Muslims believe that the Quran was verbally revealed by God to Muhammad, through the angel Gabriel, gradually over a period of approximately twenty-three years beginning in 609 A.D. when Muhammad was 40 years old. Shortly after Muhammad’s death, several of his disciples started to write down his teachings. Muhammad died in 632 A.D., over a half-century after Jesus was crucified. This chronology is important in answering the question, why is Jesus mentioned in Christianity, Judaism and Islam but not Muhammad.

Finally, both Muslims and Christians may have similarities by what they practice in their own religion but the ¨God¨ they are worshiping is different. Christians follow a triune God while Muslims follow Allah. These religions divide because of an inner belief valuable to their own

Most Christians are well acquainted with the identity of Jesus as presented in the biblical canonical Gospels. However, most are not well versed in the Jesus presented in Islam. Contemporary Christian understanding of Jesus, his miracles, and his identity as a prophet has been most often mutually exclusive from that of the contemporary Islamic community. It is well established that there are many points of dissimilarity between the character representations of Jesus. Yet, there are also notable similarities. Jesus’s miracles are discussed in both texts with varied stressed importance and purposes. With both traditions established in their respective religions, it is interesting to engage the concept that these pictures of Jesus could not be mutually exclusive. Examination of the Christology and miracles of Jesus in the Quran and Hadith allows contemporary Christian readers to view Jesus through a broader, historical lens.

Jesus’ death was a very mourning and devastating time for Mary and Joseph. When he was only thirty-three years old he was crucified. He was crucified because he was claimed as the King of the Jews and the Roman Leaders didn’t like that. The Roman Leaders despised him. To mock that he was King of the Jews they put a crown on him. The crown wasn’t a regular crown, it was a crown of thorns. Jesus was nailed to a cross in Jerusalem. He was nailed in circa 33 A.D. Before his death, he told Mary that a man named John was going to care for

On the third day after Jesus Christ was crucified, Mary Magdalena and Mary went to the tomb where Jesus laid. As they arrived there was a great earthquake and an angel from heaven rolled the stone from the door to sit on it. Of course the two women were full of fear because these occurrences happened out of thin air. The two guards that Pilate had placed at the door were completely sacred and even became like dead men. The difference between all the witnesses was that the two women were believers and the guards were not. We can already imagine the reaction the guards had compared two Mary Magdalena and Mary. These two women were filled with joy after the angel told them Jesus was not there anymore for he had risen as he said.

against Muhammad and his followers became especially brutal. Muhammad had received a number of threats against his life, including attempted assassinations. In order to protect both himself and his people, Muhammad sent his followers, which consisted of about 60 separate families, to the town of Yathrib. Muhammad himself traveled to Yathrib secretly shortly

Before Jesus’ death He made the claim that he would rise after three days. The Roman soldiers did not believe Jesus’ claims and constantly mocked him before he died on the cross. “Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God” (Matthew 27:54). Pilate instructed soldiers to stand guard in front of the tomb to make it safe so Jesus’ disciples could not steal the body and claim that Jesus had risen.

Each writer’s way of telling the story is different, but one thing that all the Scriptures agreed upon was that the woman had an issue of blood for twelve years. In Mark and Luke, they made the point to show that she had tried many doctors and spent all the money she had and still was not well. In Matthew and Mark, the woman thought in her mind that if she could touch Jesus’ clothes she would be made well. Luke does not mention this part.

In the gospel of mark Jesus foretell his death and resurrection three time. Witnessing Jesus dyeing on the cross on Calvary a centurion said” truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15: 39). On the first day of week some women when to anoint the body of Jesus, they found his tomb was empty of the body. There was young man on the right side dressed in a white rob and he said to them, “He has risen he is not here” ( mark 16: 6). Afterward Jesus appeared to many people at different occasion. Jesus said to his disciple, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole

They ask her why she is weeping and in reply, she answers, as found in the New King James Version “because” someone has taken away the body of Jesus and she does not know where it is. She has a reason to weep. Jesus had been buried “in a new sepulcher,” a place near Golgotha by Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple about who we hear in all four gospels, but only in this section of the gospel. It is said that he was a relative of Jesus but the situation presents Mary weeping alone with worry.