There are no direct quotations from the Qur'an or any translations of the Qur'an in this book. However, in each chapter there are allusions to Qur'anic teaching. Sometimes within the allusions I use quotes to indicate words people spoke. These words are not direct quotes from the Qur'an. To expedite the reader's personal study and research, I have included within the body of this book sura and verse numbers from The Holy Qur'an translated by Abdallah Yusuf Ali, published by Amana Corporation, Brentwood, Maryland, U.S., 1989. We encourage the thoughtful reader to look up and read these verses in the Qur'an.
We have included many direct quotations from the New International Version of the Bible, 1984, published by the International Bible Society. Most of these quotations are indented and surrounded with quotation marks so the reader may easily identify them. Within these direct quotes, explanations that appear in the Bible itself are placed between parenthesis ( . . . ), but explanations I have included, which are not part of the text, appear with brackets [ . . . ]. For further study, the reader is encouraged to look up these quotations and read the sections in the Bible from which they were taken.
Below is a list of the verse references in the Qur'an that are alluded to and the verses from the Bible that are quoted.
| The Qur'an | The Bible | |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue | Matthew 7:7,8 | |
| Chapter 1 | Sura 19:2-10 | Matthew 6:6 Luke 1:5-25 |
| Chapter 2 | Sura 19:12-15 | Proverbs 1:7 Proverbs 2:1-11 Luke 1:13-15 Luke 1:80 |
| Chapter 3 | Sura 3:42-46 Sura 3:44 |
Luke 1:28-32 Luke 1:42 Luke 1:46-49 John 8:4-11 |
| Chapter 4 | Sura 4:171 Sura 5:75 Sura 5:76-78 Sura 19:22-26 Sura 19:35 |
Luke 1:46b-55 Luke 11:27-28 |
| Chapter 5 | Sura 23:50 | Isaiah 7:14 Luke 2:34b-35a |
| Chapter 6 | Sura 19:27-33 | Luke 2:10-11 Luke 2:14 Luke 2:29-32 |
| Chapter 7 | Sura 3:49 | Luke 2:42b-52 |
| Chapter 8 | Sura 3:52-53 Sura 61:14 |
Luke 9:23-24 |
| Chapter 9 | Sura 57:27 | Luke 6:36 Romans 12:9-16 James 1:27; 2:13; 3:13 I Peter 3:8-9 |
| Chapter 10 | Sura 3:49b-51 Sura 43:63-64 |
Matthew 5:17 Mark 2:19-20 Mark 7:18b-19 Luke 13:14-16 John 4:23b-24 |
| Chapter 11 | Sura 5:112-115 | Isaiah 55:1-3a Luke 9:12-17 John 6:30-31 John 6:35a, 41b, 54 |
| Chapter 12 | Sura 3:49 Sura 5:110 |
Matthew 9:27 Mark 8:23 John 9:1-7 John 9:5b John 9:17b-34 John 9:39b-41b |
| Chapter 13 | Sura 3:49 Sura 5:113 |
Isaiah 1:18b Matthew 8:1-4 Mark 1:40-45 Luke 5:12-15 I John 1:7 |
| Chapter 14 | Sura 3:49 Sura 5:113 |
Luke 7:11-17 Luke 8:40-56 John 3:16 John 11:17-27; 38-44 |
| Chapter 15 | Sura 61:14 | John 7:25-43 |
| Chapter 16 | Sura 6:85 | John 7:7 John 8:47 John 8:59 John 10:39 John 11:45-53 |
| Chapter 17 | Sura 4:157 Sura 19:33 |
Numbers 6:24-26 Isaiah 53:10 Luke 23:46 John 10:17-18 John 14:27 |
| Chapter 18 | Sura 4:157 | Matthew 27:35-44 Matthew 27:50 |
| Chapter 19 | Sura 4:157 | Matthew 28:1-10 |
| Chapter 20 | Sura 3:55 Sura 4:158 |
Mark 16:19 Acts 1:4-11 |
| Chapter 21 | Sura 43:61 | Mark 13:24a-27 Luke 21:25-27 Revelation 22:20 |
| Chapter 22 | Sura 4:171 Sura 6:85 |
John 1:1 John 1:14a John 4:34; 5:24; 8:16; 9:4 John 8:46 John 10:30 John 14:9 |
| Chapter 23 | Sura 4:171 Sura 5:19, 75-78 Sura 9:30-31 Sura 13:38 Sura 19:35 |
John 1:1-18 John 8:58 John 17:5 Hebrews 7:3 Revelation 22:13 |
| Epilogue | Matthew 11:28-30 |