Jesus is central to Christianity and very important in Islam. The Bible’s depiction of his life, message, and ministry are vigorously contested by Muslims. They deny not only Jesus’ divinity, but also his defining act: his crucifixion and resurrection. Muslims have no choice, though. They must believe their highest authority—the Quran—because they claim it contains the literal words of Allah. Whatever the Quran affirms, Muslims must also affirm. It turns out, however, the Quran doesn’t just get Jesus’ crucifixion wrong. It gets all crucifixions wrong. When the Quran was written in the seventh century, Christianity was the largest world religion. Yet, despite its being allegedly authored by an all-knowing god (Allah), the Quran makes anachronistic references to crucifixion and denies the most famous crucifixion in human history—that of Jesus of Nazareth. This is incriminating evidence that the Quran is not the word of God. The Quran makes anachronistic references to crucifixion. In surah 7:120–123 ...