IS IT JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS?

Have two surahs in al-Qur’an had state that Jesus are not die on the cross of crucifixion. The surah’s is:

Al-Qura’an, An-Nisa 4: 157-158 which means: “That they said (in boast), “We killed Christ Jesus the Son of Mary, the Messenger of God”; - but they killed him not, nor crucified him[1], but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not (157). Nay, God raised him up[2] unto Himself; and God is Exalted in Power, Wise(158).”

Surah Ali-Imran 3: 54-55 and 61 too had said that Jesus are not died on the cross.

The statement in the Bible of Luke has a similarity with al-Qura’an verse about the death of Jesus. Luke 24: 39-43: “Look at my hands and my feet. It is myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have (39).” When he had said this, him showed his hands and feet (40)”. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” (41). They give him a piece of broiled fish (42), and he took it and ate it in their presence (43).”

Al-Qura’an and Bible have a similarity on this aspect. The proof has revealed here, which Jesus had said that he is not dead, he is too not the ghost, and this is because the ghost do not poses a flesh and bone, while he poses it. Jesus too has asked about the food and he ate the food when it given to him. The question is, for what purpose our Christian friends to believed that Jesus died on the cross, while Jesus himself confesses that he is not die at the crucifixion.

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[1] The end of the life of Jesus is as much involved in mystery as his birth, and indeed the greater part of his private life, except the three main years of his ministry. It is not profitable to discuss the many doubts and conjectures among the early Christian sects and among Muslim theologians. The Orthodox Christian Churches make it a cardinal point of their doctrine that his life was taken on the Cross, that he died and was buried, that on the third day he rose in the body with his wounds intact, and walked about and conversed, and ate with his disciples, and was afterwards taken up bodily to heaven. This is necessary for the theological doctrine of the blood sacrifice and vicarious atonement for sins, which is rejected by Islam. But some of the early Christians sect did not believe that Christ was killed on the Cross. The Basilidans believed that someone else was substituted for him. the Docetae held that Christ never had a real physical or natural body, but only an apparent or phantom body, and that his Crucifixion was only apparent, not real. The Marcionite Gospel (about A.C 138) denied that Jesus was born, and merely said that he appeared in human form. The Gospel of St. Barnabas supported the theory of substitution on the Cross. The Qur’anic teaching is that Christ was not crucified nor killed by the Jews, notwithstanding certain apparent circumstances which produced that illusion in the minds of some of his enemies; disputafions, doubts, and conjuctures on such matters are vain and that he was taken up to God.

[2] There is difference of opinion as to the exact interpretation of this verse. The words are: The Jews did not killed Jesus, but God raised him up (rafa’a) to Himself. One school holds that Jesus did not die the usual human death, but still lives in the body in heaven, which is the generally accepted Muslim view. Another holds that he did die (5:117) but not when he was supposed to be crucified, and that his being “raised up” unto God means that instead of being disgraced as a malefactor, as the Jews intended, he was on the contrary honoured by God as His Messenger.