Bible versus Koran witness to Jesus, Part Three

7-1-22 Bible versus Koran witness to Jesus, Part Three

The Muslim Challenge:

There are strong evidences that Jesus did not die.

My response to TK (Wednesday, June 15, 2022), Part Two:

You comment:

“There are strong evidences that he did not die:

1) he was hanged for at most 6h, too short to cause death”

I answer:

Questioning how long it took Jesus to die has no bearing upon the historical fact that our Lord Jesus Christ most certainly died on the cross as described in the four Gospel records which record the fact:

The Death of Jesus
Luk 23:44 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,
Luk 23:45 while the sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
Luk 23:46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. (ESV)

[I plan to return soon to continue my answers. Just now, the clock has stopped me! Thank you for your kindness and patience in continuing this discussion. It helps me learn more about your faith and I trust it helps you learn more about mine.]

Mat 27:50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. (ESV)

Mar 15:37 And Jesus, uttering a loud cry, expired.
Mar 15:38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
Mar 15:39 Now when the centurion who stood across from Him saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, “Truly this Man was the Son of God!” (EMTV, English Majority Text Version)

The Death of Jesus
Joh 19:28  After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
Joh 19:29  Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
Joh 19:30  When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Jesus’ Side Is Pierced
Joh 19:31  The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Joh 19:32  Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
Joh 19:33  But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
Joh 19:34  But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Joh 19:35  And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Joh 19:36  For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
Joh 19:37  And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

Jesus Is Buried
Joh 19:38  And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
Joh 19:39  And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Joh 19:40  Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Joh 19:41  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
Joh 19:42  There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. (KJV)

The four Gospel accounts clearly record the fact that our Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross. There is no historical evidence from that time that gives any possible reason to believe otherwise.