TRUTH ABOUT THE CRUCIFIXION Transcripts from the International Conference on Deliverance of Jesus from the Cross held at the COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE Kensington High Street, Kensington, London W.8 on 2nd, 3rd and 4th June, 1978Printed by ASCOT PRESS, London, S.W.9Foreword The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib of Qadian had his attention drawn by God to the verity that though Jesus, peace be on him, had been nailed to the cross, God Almighty had delievered him from death upon the cross, which was deemed accursed by virtue of the pronounce- ment in verse 23, chapter 21 of Deuteronomy; and that after the event of the Crucifixion Jesus departed from Judea in search of the Lost Tribes of Israel and eventually died a natural death in Kashmir. He was also able to specify the tomb of Jesus in Kashmir. He set out these matters in detail in his well-known book ‘Jesus in India’, His announcement that Jesus had not died on the cross met with bitter opposition both from the main body of Muslims and the Christians. The Orthodox Muslim divines condemned him as an unbeliever outside the pale of Islam, because of his exposition that though Jesus had been nailed to the Cross, he had not died on the cross, This announcement also amounted to a refutation of a fun- damental Christian doctrine and the Christians also, therefore, became bitterly hostile to him. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib was also divinely informed that God Almighty would pro- gressively bring to light historical evidence which would estab- lish beyond doubt that the verity concerning the death and tomb of Jesus which had been disclosed to and publicised by him was irrefutable and was a manifestation of divine purpose. In order to draw the attention of the West strikingly to this unique research of the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Move- ment, the Ahmadiyya Community in the United Kingdom or- ganised an International Conference with the permission and under the guidance and direction of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih Il, Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement. The Conference was 3