_And when God sent him_ [Jesus] _to the children of Israel, he said unto them, Verily I am the apostle of God unto you_; for I have come unto you with a sign from your Lord; for I will make for you of earth the similitude of a bird, and will breathe into it, and it shall be a bird,[333] by the permission (_or will_) of God;[334] (_and he made for them a bat; for it is the most perfect of birds in make; and it flew, while they looked at it; but when it had gone out of their sight, it fell down dead_;) and I will cure the blind from his birth, and the leper; (_and he cured in one day fifty thousand, by prayer, on the condition of faith_;) and I will raise to life the dead, by the permission of God; (_this he repeated to deny his divinity: and he raised to life ´Áriz_ [Lazarus] _a friend of his; and a son of the old woman, and the daughter of the publican; and they lived, and children were born to them; and Shem the son of Noah, who died immediately_;) and I will tell you what ye eat and what ye store up in your houses. Verily therein will be a sign unto you, if ye be believers. And _I have come unto you_ as a verifier of that which was before me, of the Law, and to make lawful unto you part of what was made unlawful to you _therein_; (_and he made lawful to them, of fish and fowls, whatsoever is without fin or spur; and it is said that he made lawful all, and that ‘part’ is used in the sense of ‘the whole:’_) and I have come unto you with a sign from your Lord; therefore fear ye God, and obey me _in that which I command you, as to the confession of the unity of God and the service of Him_. Verily God is my Lord and your Lord; therefore worship Him. This is [the] right way. _But they accused him of falsehood and believed not in him._ And when Jesus perceived their unbelief, he said, Who [will be] my helpers for God? The apostles[335] answered, We [will be] the helpers of God. We have believed in God; and bear thou witness, _O Jesus_, that we are Muslims [or resigned]. O our Lord, we have believed in that which Thou hast sent down _of the Gospel_, and we have followed the Apostle, _Jesus_; therefore write us down among those who bear witness _of Thy unity and of the truth of Thine apostle_.—And they (_that is, the unbelievers among the children of Israel_) devised a stratagem _against Jesus, to slay him treacherously_; but God devised a stratagem _against them; for He put the likeness of Jesus upon one who intended his slaughter, and they slew him; and Jesus was taken up_ [into heaven],[336] and God is the best of those who devise stratagems.... _It is related that God sent a cloud to Jesus, and it took him up; but his mother clung unto him and wept: whereupon he said unto her, Verily the resurrection will unite us.—It is also related that he will descend shortly before the resurrection and judge according to the law of our prophet_ [Moḥammad], _slay Antichrist and the swine, break the cross, and