He said: O Lord!

He said: O Lord! I passed through this town last year and he was being chastised, and I passed through it this year while he is not being chastised. Then God revealed to him: O Spirit of God! Verily one of his children matured and removed obstacles from a road and sheltered an orphan. Then I forgave him for the deeds of his child.

(5) Imam Sadiq (a.s) was asked: Did Jesus the son of Mary raise anyone from the dead, so that he ate and had a livelihood, and continued his life for a term and had offspring? He said: Yes, he had a friend who was a brother to him in God. And when Jesus passed by, he would go to visit him. And Jesus (a.s) would spend a while with him. Then he would leave with salutations of Peace unto him.

Once his mother came out to him [Jesus] and she said to him: ‘He died, O Apostle of God!’ He said to her: ‘Would you like to see him?’ She said: ‘Yes.’ He said to her: ‘I will come tomorrow to raise him with the permission of God. The next day he came and said to her: ‘Accompany me to his grave.’ So they went to his grave. Jesus (a.s) stopped and then he called on God. Then the grave opened and her son came out alive. When his mother saw him and he saw her, they cried.

Jesus (a.s) felt compassion for them and said to him: ‘Would you like to remain with your mother in the world?’ He said: ‘O Apostle of God! With eating and daily bread and a term, or without a term and a daily bread?’ Then Jesus (a.s) said to him: ‘Of course with daily bread and a term. You will live for twenty years, marry and father a child.’ He said: ‘Yes, in that case.’ [Imam Sadiq] said: Then Jesus (a.s) returned him to his mother and he lived for twenty years, married and fathered a child.

(6) Abu al-Layth said in his commentary of the Qur’an: The people asked Jesus (a.s) in ridicule: ‘Create a bat for us and put a soul in it if you are one of the truthful. Then he took some clay and formed a bat and breathed into it. Then it suddenly flew between the sky and the earth. The clay was moulded and breathed into by Jesus, but the creation was by God, the Supreme. And it is said that they asked to create a bat because it is more wonderful than other creatures.

(7) Al-Sayyid ibn Tawus, may God have mercy on him, said: I read in the Gospel that Jesus (a.s) boarded a ship and his disciples were with him when suddenly there was great confusion in the sea so that the ship came near to being covered by the waves. And it was as though [Jesus (a.s)] was asleep.