And on Sunday morning, the disciples, having come to the tomb, found it empty. On the same day... And it came to pass, when the doors of the house where his disciples were assembled, were shut, for fear of the Jews, that Jesus came, and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you. Having said this, He showed them His hands and feet and His side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. And Jesus said to them a second time, Peace be unto you. as the Father has sent me, so do I send you. And when he had said this, he blew, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit. To whom you forgive sins, they will be forgiven; on whom you leave, they will remain. But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Twin, was not there with them when Jesus came. The other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said unto them, Unless I see the wounds of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the wounds of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. After eight days his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, when the doors were shut, stood in the midst of them, and said, Peace be unto you! Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger hither, and see my hands; Give thy hand and put it into my side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing. Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God! Jesus said to him, "You have believed because you have seen Me; blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:19-29).

Then, appearing on the mountain to His five hundred disciples (1 Corinthians 15:3-9), He commanded: "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age (Matthew 28:19-20), go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; but whoever does not believe will be condemned (Mark 16:15-16).

And so the Lord, after conversing with them, ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God (Mark 16:19). And when he had said this, he was lifted up in their eyes, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And as they looked up into heaven, while he was ascending, suddenly two men in white robes stood before them, and said, Men of Galilee! Why do you stand and look up to heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into heaven (Acts 1:9-11).

Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, even those who pierced him; and all the families of the earth mourn before Him (Rev. 1:7), for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive according to what he did while living in the body, good or bad, 2 Corinthians 5:10.

How do Muslims teach about Jesus Christ?

In Arabic transcription, the name of Jesus Christ sounds like Isa al-Masih (this is a direct translation of the Hebrew "Yeshua Mashiach"). Muslims admit that Christ was miraculously born of the Virgin Mary: "Behold, the angels said, 'O Mary! Behold, Allah gladdens you with the tidings of a word from Him, whose name is the Messiah Jesus, the son of Mary, glorious in the world to come and to the Hereafter... She said: "Lord! Where will I have a child from, when no man has touched me?" He said, "Yes! Allah does what He wills. When He has decided a matter, He will only say to it, 'Be!' and it happens" (Qur'an 3:45,47).

At the same time, unlike Christians, Muslims do not believe that Mary preserved her virginity after childbirth, that is, they deny her Ever-virginity, and also believe that during childbirth she suffered and cried out: "Oh, if only I had died before that and been forgotten" (Quran 19:23).

Muslims think that Jesus was an ordinary man, like Adam (Quran 3.59) and had a prophetic mission. He was sent only to the people of Israel with the following revelation: "Worship Allah my Lord and your Lord!" (Qur'an 5:117), and also: "O children of Israel! I am the Messenger of Allah to you, confirming the truth of what has been revealed to me in the Torah, and announcing the Messenger who will come after me, whose name will be Ahmad" (Qur'an 61:6). Ahmad is one of the forms of the name Muhammad.

In Islam, it is recognized that Jesus performed miracles: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I will make you of clay in the image of a bird, and I will blow into it, and it will become a bird according to the will of Allah.45 I will heal the blind and the leper, and I will revive the dead with the permission of Allah. I will let you know what you eat and what you keep in your homes. Indeed, in this is a sign for you, if you are believers." (Qur'an 3:49). In addition, among His miracles in the Qur'an is what He said as a child,46 and that through His prayer Allah brought down a table with a table from heaven in order to convince the Apostles: "Behold, the Apostles said: 'O Jesus, son of Mary! Can your Lord bring down a table for us from heaven?" He said, "Fear God if you are believers." They said, "We want to eat from it, and our hearts will be at rest, and we will know that you have told us the truth, and we will be witnesses of it." Jesus the son of Mary said, "Allah our Lord! Bring down for us a table from heaven! It will be a feast for the first of us and for the last, and a sign from You. Allah said: "I will send it down to you, but whoever of you is an unbeliever, I will punish him with the punishment with which I do not punish any of the worlds." (Qur'an 5:111-115).

The Qur'an says that Jesus received from Allah a scripture called the Gospel, "in which is guidance and light, and with confirmation of the truth of what has been sent down before him in the Torah" (Qur'an 5:46), and that Allah "strengthened Jesus with the Holy Spirit" (Qur'an 2:87).

Islam categorically denies that Jesus is God and the Son of God: "Those who say that Jesus, the son of Mary, is God, do not believe. Say, 'Who has authority over anything with Allah if He wants to destroy Jesus, the son of Mary, and his mother, and those who are on the earth, all of them?'" (Qur'an 5:17), "And the Christians said, 'Christ is the Son of God.' These words in their mouths are like the words of those who did not believe before. May Allah smite them! How disgusted they are!" (Qur'an 9:30). "Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, is only the messenger of Allah and His word which He threw to Mary and His spirit... Indeed, Allah is only one god. More praiseworthy than He is to have a child." (Qur'an 4:171).

Muslims, trying to explain the obvious contradiction between the Koran and the Gospel, say that the Christians of the first centuries did not profess the Triune God, did not worship Christ as either God or the Son of God (but only a prophet), that He was not crucified and, accordingly, was neither the Redeemer nor the Savior of mankind, but all this appeared much later, in the third and fourth centuries, as a distortion of His original teaching. According to them, under the influence of these distortions, the original text of the Gospel was subsequently corrupted (Qur'an 3:78-79).

Here are just some of the most typical examples of this kind of statement: "Christ came with the true religion, but those who came after him deified him and mixed his pure teaching with the false one that came from themselves, and invented a new religion, which they called 'Christianity'."47 Jesus transmitted to his people the Gospel that had been orally revealed to him in its original form. The apostles also preached it orally. Then they mixed in it the exposition of the life of their prophet with the revealed psalms of the Gospel... Among the thousands of Greek manuscripts, there is not a single one written before the fourth century A.D.48."