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Jesus was the last prophet of the Jewish people. They rejected him and accused him of being accursed, sought to slay him by nailing him on the cross, almost succeeded. The Christians believe that Jesus atoned for their sins and that Jesus is the literal son of God. Believing in this atonement guarantees you a place in heaven. Muhammad on the other hand, was an un-lettered person, appointed by God as a Prophet. He is not worshipped at all. Jesus is worshipped by Christians but not by Muslims. Muhammad is the exemplar in life for all Muslims. He reformed the entire Arab people in just 23 years from a nomadic, barbaric people to a refined, educated and cultured nation who later on built cities like Granada in Spain, as the western world had never seen before. Jesus and Muhammad lived quite different lives in different circumstances and different centuries. So, information, about the lives of each, must be sought from entirely different sources. The gospel stories are the only known sources that may provide any information about the life of Jesus. There are several gospels, of which four are in the New Testament, while modern Christianity regards the remaining gospels as in error. The four canonical gospels are those of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Many scholars regard Mark's Gospel as the first gospel to be written. They say that it was probably written around 70 CE, about 40 years after the death of Jesus. Some scholars also say that the other gospels were based on Mark's Gospel, thus making Mark's Gospel the original source from which all other histories of Jesus were based. Matthew and Luke contain additional sayings, believed by scholars to be from a sayings source now called the 'Q' document, but when they reported the same saying, each evangelist placed that saying by Jesus in a completely different context and time. For its part, John's Gospel sometimes contradicts the other gospels. Thus, a search for the history of Jesus should perhaps be based on Mark's...