Crucifixion of Jesus

===Islam===
[[Islamic view of Jesus' death|Muslims maintain]] that Jesus was not crucified and that those who thought they had killed him had mistakenly killed [[Judas Iscariot]], [[Simon of Cyrene]], or someone else in his place.<ref name=Bra127>George W. Braswell Jr., ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRenjUoud3kC&pg=PA127 What You Need to Know about Islam and Muslims] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123113213/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRenjUoud3kC&pg=PA127 |date=November 23, 2022 }}'', p. 127 (B & H Publishing Group, 2000). {{ISBN|978-0-8054-1829-3}}.</ref> They hold this belief based on various interpretations of {{Cite quran|4|157|e=158|style=ref}}, which states: "they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them [or it appeared so unto them],&nbsp;... Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself".<ref name=Bra127/>