descends in the
clouds of heaven.'

Isaiah the prophet has announced the birth of Jesus in words the
translation of which is as follows:--'A branch from the root of
I'shai shall spring up, and from this branch shall come forth a
flower in which the Spirit of God shall dwell, verily a virgin
shall be pregnant and bring forth a Son.' I'shai is the name of
the father of David.

"When they had apprehended Jesus, they spat upon His blessed face
and smote Him. Isaiah had predicted it. 'I shall give up My body
to the smiters, and My cheek to the diggers of wounds. I shall
not turn My face from those who will use bad words and throw
spittle upon Me.' When Pilatus, a judge of the Jews, scourged the
Lord Jesus in such a manner that His body from head to foot
became but one wound, so was it as Isaiah had predicted, 'He was
wounded for our transgressions; I struck Him for His people.'
When Pilatus saw that the Jews insisted upon the death and
crucifixion of Jesus, he said, 'I take no part in the blood of
this Man; I wash my hands clean of His blood.' The Jews answered,
'His blood be on us and on our children.' On that account the
Jews are oppressed and curbed down in retribution of their
iniquities. When they had placed the cross upon the shoulders of
Jesus and led Him to die, a woman wiped with the border of her
garment the face, full of blood, of the Lord Jesus. Verily she
obtained three images of it and carried them home; the one of
these images exists still in Spain, the other is in the town of
Milan in Italy, and the third in the city of Rome."

The same author, Mohsin Fani, says:--

The Gospel has been translated from the tongue of Jesus into
different languages, namely, into Arabic, Greek, Latin, which
last is the language of the learned among the Firangis; and into
Syriac, and this all learned men know.

Fragments of our Lord's teaching are found not only in religious but
also in secular Mohammedan books; thus in the Kitab Jawidan of Ibn
Muskawih we have the following:--

The hatefullest of learned men in the eyes of God is he who loves
reputation and that room should be made for him in the assemblies
of the great, and to be invited to feasts. Verily I say they have
their reward in the world.

In the Kitab-al-Aghani, a history of Arabic poetry, it is related:--

Satan came to Jesus and said, 'Dost Thou not sp