The True Message of Jesus
Excerpts from the Gospel of Barnabas
And having said this, Jesus smote his face with both his hands, and then smote
the ground with his head. And having raised his head, he said: "Cursed be every
one who shall insert into my sayings that I am the son of God" (Chapter 53)
Jesus answered: "And you; what say you that I am?" Peter answered: "You are
Christ, son of God". Then was Jesus angry, and with anger rebuked him, saying:
"Begone and depart from me, because you are the devil and seek to cause me
offences" (Chapter 70)
Jesus said again: "I confess before heaven, and call to witness everything that
dwells upon the earth, that I am a stranger to all that men have said of me, to
wit, that I am more than man. For I am a man, born of a woman, subject to the
judgment of God; that live here like as other men, subject to the common
miseries" (Chapter 94)
Then answered the priest, with the governor and the king, saying: "Distress not
yourself, O Jesus, holy one of God, because in our time shall not this sedition
be any more, seeing that we will write to the sacred Roman senate in such wise
that by imperial decree none shall any more call you God or son of God." Then
Jesus said: "With your words I am not consoled, because where you hope for
light darkness shall come; but my consolation is in the coming of the
Messenger, who shall destroy every false opinion of me, and his faith shall
spread and shall take hold of the whole world, for so has God promised to
Abraham our father." (Chapter 97)
Adam, having sprung upon his feet, saw in the air a writing that shone like the
sun, which said: "There is only one God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God."
(Chapter 39)
Adam, turning around, saw written above the gate, There is only one God, and
Muhammad is Messenger of God. (Chapter 41)
Then Jesus said: "I am a voice that cries through all Judea, and cries:
"Prepare you the way for the messenger of the Lord," even as it is written in
Esaias." They said: "If you be not the Messiah nor Elijah, or any prophet,
wherefore do you preach new doctrine, and make yourself of more account than
the Messiah?" Jesus answered: "The miracles which God works by my hands show
that I speak that which God wills; nor indeed do I make myself to be accounted
as him of whom you speak. For I am not worthy to unloose the ties of the hosen
or the ratchets of the shoes of the Messenger of God whom you call "Messiah,"
who was made before me, and shall come after me, and shall bring the words of
truth, so that his faith shall have no end." (Chapter 43)
O blessed time, when he shall come to the world! Believe me that I have seen
him and have done him reverence, even as every prophet has seen him: seeing
that of his spirit God gives to them prophecy. And when I saw him my soul was
filled with consolation, saying: "O Muhammad, God be with you, and may he make
me worthy to untie, your shoelatchet, for obtaining this I shall be a great
prophet and holy one of God." And having said this, Jesus rendered his thanks
to God. (Chapter 44)
And God shall make answer even as a friend who jests with a friend, and shall
say: 'Have you witnesses of this, my friend Muhammad?' And with reverence he
shall say: "Yes, Lord." Then God shall answer: "Go, call them, O Ga br iel."
The angel Ga br iel shall come to the Messenger of God, and shall say: "Lord
who are your 'witnesses?" The Messenger of God shall answer: "They are Adam, A
br aham, Ishmael, Moses, David, and Jesus son of Mary." "Then shall the angel
departs and he shall call the aforesaid witnesses, who with fear shall go
thither. And when they are present God shall say to them: Remember you that
which my Messenger affirms?" They shall reply: "What thing, O Lord?" God shall
say: "That I have made all things for love of him, so that all things might
praise me by him." (Chapter 55)
Jesus answered: "The name of the Messiah is admirable, for God himself gave him
the name when he had created his soul, and placed it in a celestial splendor.
God said: "Wait Muhammad; for your sake I will to create paradise, the world,
and a great multitude of creatures, whereof I make you a present, insomuch that
whoever shall bless you shall be blessed, and whoever shall curse you shall be
accursed. When I shall send you into the world I shall send you as my Messenger
of salvation, and your word shall be true, insomuch that heaven and earth shall
fail, but your faith shall never fail." Muhammad is his blessed name." Then the
crowd lifted up their voices, saying: "O God send us your Messenger: O
Muhammad, come quickly for the salvation of the world!" (Chapter 98)
But when Muhammad shall come, the sacred Messenger of God, that infamy shall be
taken away. And this shall God do because I have confessed the truth of the
Messiah who shall give me this reward, that I shall be known to be alive and to
be a stranger to that death of infamy. (Chapter 112)
After those years shall the angel Ga br iel; come into hell, and shall hear
them say: "O Muhammad, where are your promises made to us, saying that those
who have your faith shall not abide in hell for evermore?" Then the angel of
God shall return to paradise, and having approached with reverence the
Messenger of God shall narrate to him what he has heard. Then shall his
Messenger speak to God and say: "Lord, my God, remember the promise made to me
your servant, concerning them that have received my faith, that they shall not
abide for evermore in hell." God shall answer: "Ask what you will, O my friend,
for I will give you all that you ask." (Chapter 136)
The disciples answered, "O Master, who shall that man be of whom you speak, who
shall come into the world?" Jesus answered with joy of heart: "He is Muhammad,
Messenger of God, and when he comes into the world, even as the rain makes the
earth to bear fruit when for a long time it has not rained, even so shall he be
occasion of good works among men, through the abundant mercy which he shall br
ing. For he is a white cloud full of the mercy of God, which mercy God shall
sprinkle upon the faithful like rain." (Chapter 163)
Jesus answered: "Believe me, Barnabas, that every sin, however small it be, God
punishes with great punishment, seeing that God is offended at sin. Wherefore,
since my mother and my faithful disciples that were with me loved me a little
with earthly love, the righteous God has willed to punish this love with the
present grief, in order that it may not be punished in the flames of hell. And
though I have been innocent in the world, since men have called me "God," and
"Son of God," God, in order that I be not mocked of the demons on the day of
judgment, has willed that I be mocked of men in this world by the death of
Judas, making all men to believe that I died upon the cross. And this mocking
shall continue until the advent of Muhammad, the Messenger of God, who, when he
shall come, shall reveal this deception to those who believe in God's Law.
Having thus spoken, Jesus said: "You are just, O Lord our God, because to you
only belongs honor and glory
without end." (Chapter 220)
Accordingly, br ethren, I, a man, dust and clay, that walk upon the earth, say
to you: Do penance and know your sins. I say, br ethren, that Satan, by means
of the Roman soldiery, deceived you when you said that I was God. Wherefore,
beware that you believe them not, seeing they are fallen under the curse of
God, serving the false and lying gods; even as our father David invokes a curse
upon them, saying: The gods of the nations are silver and gold, the work of
their hands; that have eyes and see not, have ears and hear not, have noses and
smell not, have a mouth and eat not, have a tongue and speak not, have hands
and touch not, have feet and walk not. Wherefore said David our father, praying
our living God, Like to them be they that make them and they that trust in
them. (Chapter 128)
O pride unheard of, this pride of man, who being created by God out of earth
forgets his condition and would fain make God at his own pleasure! Wherein he
silently mocks God, as though he should say: There is no use in serving God.
For so do their works show. To this did Satan desire to reduce you, O br
ethren, in making you believe me to be God; because, I not being able to create
a fly, and being passable and mortal, I can give you nothing of use, seeing
that I myself have need of everything. How, then, could I help you in all
things, as it is proper to God to do? Shall we, then, who have for our God the
great God who has created the universe with his word, mock at the Gentiles and
their gods? (Chapter 128)
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"Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel a deep
sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty
generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times
'by the sword' to get them to abandon their faith." (Uri Avnery, a Jewish
Journalist)
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