Jesus's Disciples
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According to Bible Jesus never believed his disciples. So he said:

I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. (John 16:12)

And he (Jesus) saith unto them (the disciples), Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith (Mathew 8:26)

 And (Jesus) said unto him (Peter) O thou of little faith. (Mathew 14:31)

  …..he  (Jesus) said unto them (the disciples), O ye of little faith, why reason among yourselves. (Mathew 16:8)

  And he (Jesus) said unto them (his disciples) where is your faith?  (Luke 8:25)

 We must bear in mind that this is not the indictment of Jesus (pbuh), on the indecivisiveness of the Jews, but on his very own elect. He stoops down to the level of little children to make things plain to his disciples but he is compelled to burst out in frustration.

  And Jesus said, Are you even yet without understanding? (Mathew 15:16)

  And when he was provoked to breaking point, he rails against his chosen ones :

  …..O Faithless and perverse Generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I bear with you. (Luke 9:41)

  Disciples deserted him

What was the response of the chosen twelve, of his own “mother and brethren” (Mark 3:34), as he called them? I will allow Professor Momerie to describe it in his own inimitable words.

“His immediate disciples were always misunderstanding him and his work: wanting him to call down fire from heaven: wanting him to declare himself king of the Jews: wanting to sit on his right hand and on his left hand in his kingdom: wanting him to show them the Father. To make God visible to their bodily eyes; wanting him to do, and wanting do themselves. Anything and everything that was incompatible with his great plan. This was how they treated him until the end, (and) when that came, they all forsook him, and fled” (Quoted from Sayed Amir ali in his “The Spirit of Islam, p.31)

 It was most unfortunate that Jesus Christ (pbuh) had no real choice in selecting his disciples. They let him down as no other group of devotees had ever let down their prophet before. It was no fault of the Master. He bewailed his plight: “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh (clay) is weak “(Mathew 26:41). Truly, this is not the clay out of which a new Adam could be made.

Own family thought him MAD

If Jesus (pbuh) would have been a Japanese instead of a Jew, he would have happily have committed that honourable “hara-kiri” (suicide). Sadly, he was the most unfortunate of God’s Messengers, His family disbelieved him For neither did his (Jesus) brethren believe in him (John 7:5). In fact they went to the extent of wanting to apprehend him, believing that he was mad.

And when his relatives heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him (Jesus) : for they said, he is beside himself. (Mark 3:21)

Who were these friends and relatives of Jesus (pbuh) which had concern for his sanity? Let. Rev. J.R. Dummelow, M.A, in his One Volume Bible Commentary tell us. On page 726 he says:

From V.31: (Just 10 verses following the above quotation) They appear to have been  his mother and brethren…. His family said: HE IS BESIDE HIMSELF. (meaning that he is not right in is head); the scribes said, ‘He is possessed by the devil himself’. It is not, however, implied at all that his family was in sympathy with the scribes. (the learned men of the Jews), their apprehension being simply that his mind was unsettled, and that he needed to be put under restraint

His Nation rejected him

That was the verdict of the close relations of Jesus (pbuh). What then was the response of his own nation, the Jews, after all his beautiful preachings and mighty miracle workings? His disciple puts it very mildly:

He came unto his own (the Jews) and his own received him (Jesus) not. (John 1:11)

Actually “his own” mocked him, scorned him and vehemently rejected him. To the extent of making an attempt to crucify him. Despite two thousand years of Christian persecutions and pogroms, and now their overwhelming love and infatuation for them, so as to salve their own conscience. The Jews as a people and as a whole can never accept Jesus as their Saviour, their Deliverer, their God, simply because of their one sound judgment
            “That no Jew can ever accept another Jew as a God”

It is only in Islam that the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims can find accommodation-all believing in Jesus Christ (pbuh) for what he really was-one of the mightiest Messengers of God; and not as or His son!

As usual Holy Qur'an come to save the Jesus Disciples from these false charges.

But when Jesus perceived unbelief on their part, he said Who will be my helpers in Allah's way? The disciples said: We are helpers (in the way) of Allah: We believe in Allah and bear witness that we are submitting ones. Our Lord! we believe in what Thou hast revealed and we follow the apostle, so write us down with those who bear witness. (Holy Qur'an 3:52-53)

And when I revealed to the disciples, saying, Believe in Me and My apostle, they said: We believe and bear witness that we submit (ourselves).
When the disciples said: O Jesus son of Mary! will your Lord consent to send down to us food from heaven? He said: Be careful of (your duty to) Allah if  you are believers.
They said: We desire that we should eat of it and that our hearts should be at rest, and that we may know that you have indeed spoken the truth to us and  that we may be of the witnesses to it.
Jesus the son of Mary said: O Allah, our Lord! send i down to us food from heaven which should be to us an ever-recurring happiness, to the first of  us and to the last of us, and a sign from Thee, and grant us means of subsistence, and Thou art the best of the Providers.
Allah said: Surely I will send it down to you, but whoever shall disbelieve afterwards from among you, surely I will chastise him with a chastisement with which I will not chastise, anyone among the nations. (Holy Qur'an 5:111-115)

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