# Did Jesus survive the crucifixion?

*Jesus: speaking 'in the cradle' and surviving the cross*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/37/
- Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:40:28–3:45:06)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=13228s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/

**Topics:** Jesus in the Quran; Christians and other faiths; Responses to critics

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth reads the cradle verse as the priests' indignation at being debated by a boy, and says Jesus was taken down from the cross alive after a few hours, which he finds more plausible than a substitute transformed to look like him.

## Longer summary

The critics mock his reading of the verse in which the priests ask how they can speak to a boy; Mufti Abu Layth says he argued that the high priests of Jerusalem found it dishonouring to be debated and bested by a boy, and referred to the Gospel of Luke. They also laugh at his view that Jesus was put on the cross and taken down alive: because of the Sabbath he was there only a few hours when crucifixion normally took about three days, and the Roman soldiers, by the biblical account, checked him with a spear and took him down. Mufti contrasts this with the view he says they hold, that a Roman soldier, or Judas, was transformed to look exactly like Jesus and crucified while Jesus was raised to the sky, and asks why they find that less strange. He then turns to the critic's remarks about people who donate to him.

## Sources and names cited

- Isa (Jesus)
- Gospel of Luke
- Judas Iscariot
- Roman Empire

## Transcript (machine tier, 3:40:28–3:45:06)

[3:40:24] there is again and these people said that it was a natural birth. Um they say you want us to speak to this boy. He was just debating you a few seconds ago. And this once again they don't tackle the actual topic of Jesus cuz they're saying well why would the Quran say to address the boy when wasn't he just dealing with I mention in my actual clip that they were very they found it incredibly dishonoring and insulting that this boy was debating them and he was getting one over them.

[3:40:54] Now, that doesn't mean just because like if a boy was really intelligent and he's being, let's say, somewhat cheeky and it doesn't mean you will now say, "Oh, well, you know, because you got one over me, I'm going to engage you." No, that the the high priests of Jerusalem would never have accepted that. So, once again, if only they tackled the actual and I mentioned I gave reference to what was it, the Gospel of Luke. Why not tackle the actual query?

[3:41:20] And now you want us to speak to a it's it's a ridiculous interpretation. No uh no absolutely no respect for the Quran. No respect for the Quran. [laughter] No respect for truth. That's the thing. [laughter] No respect for truth. No respect for what Allah wants you to believe and wants you to accept. No respect.

[3:41:47] [laughter] All the matter is um I want to uh provide aation of what's going on because I've never seen their kids really. That's the point. That's it's the miracle. That's the point. Borat runner up. [laughter] That's the point. Like I I really like that, you know, to try to and you give someone the benefit of the doubt, but there is no leeway here, man.

[3:42:17] This is insane. So I like how [laughter] to stab who's asking for your doubt for the benefit of the doubt. A flesh wound punctured him and [laughter] check out Jesus. just take him down and you know like you know what you see look they're they're laughing that I said Jesus was put on a cross and because it was the Sabbath and they only had half a day.

[3:42:47] He didn't actually die because normally it took on average about 3 days to be successfully crucified. And so the Roman soldiers, according to the biblical version, they check by trying to see if his lung is punctured and they take him down. Now they find that absurd and they say, I could understand an atheist or somebody saying, you know, that that's dumb. That's stories. But look at what they're saying.

[3:43:13] They're saying that's dumb. But what actually happened was a Roman soldier got uh sudden plastic surgery and was transfigured into to Jesus to look like him. And Jesus suddenly looked like the uh the soldier and he flew into heaven and the soldier who's a Roman soldier became or was he Judas? He couldn't have been Judas.

[3:43:36] Judas kind of hangs himself in in in the garden. But so this soldier gets turned into Jesus and he gets put on a cross and he dies and Jesus is living in the sky somewhere for the last 2,000 years. [laughter] And that's you don't find that anything odd about that like you find the fact that a Roman soldier because he has to take down Jesus and it's too short.

[3:44:08] It's only a couple of hours he's been there. a few hours and he ought to be there 3 days at least to die. He he he kind of puts a spear in his rib and thinks, "Yeah, you know, he's dead." And and that there couldn't have been some negligence in that act or that God, you know, that couldn't have still saved Jesus. He couldn't have still, but yet in turn, what God did is he zooms him up into heaven like, "Hey, zaps him out. He transfigures a Roman uh SP soldier to look like Jesus turn into his exact doppelganger and he gets crucified although he could speak and say well guys I'm actually this Roman soldier but no God takes away the power of speak and you don't find that weird

[3:44:47] [laughter] I mean for God's sake like once again if you just tackle the real saying it's the idiots they're donating they're subscribing this is the real thing that burns what the hell is wrong with you people like you you'd pay money to someone when he says crap like that. [laughter] What the hell is wrong with you? Maybe he has an arrangement like pay it and I'll pay.

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment zZ85AUzeK5w/s/37. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/37/

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