This is supported by the words of the Almighty: {And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of God." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain. Rather, God raised him to Himself. And ever is God Exalted in Might and Wise}1.
(381) Another group related: The one who entered upon Lord Messiah and had the likeness cast upon him was called Paul; when he went out to the Jews, they killed him and bore him upon the cross. As for Judas Iscariot, when Lord Jesus the Messiah had performed what he did regarding the manifestation of the Occultation—Glory be to Him who is present and never absent—Judas sat one day with a slaughtered rooster in his hand, plucking its feathers. His wife said to him: "The Messiah returns at this very hour, and you were one of those who used to show him love; with what face will you meet him now that you have been with his enemies?" He replied: "If the Messiah returns, then this rooster shall return to life." Immediately, the rooster shook its legs in his hand and entered the courtyard, walking and crowing. The news spread among the Jews, so they entered Judas's home, dragged him out, and beat him with the thorns of the tragacanth tree until they killed him.
(382) Among what appeared in the reports: When the Jews crucified the likeness upon a piece of wood, they stood that wood—upon which the likeness was placed while they thought it was the Messiah—between two thieves crucified on two other pieces of wood, intending to degrade him and extinguish the light of God. When Nebuchadnezzar did what he did and God granted him victory over them, and the remainder fled from the Holy House, Nebuchadnezzar took the three pieces of wood, upon one of which was the body of the one made to resemble the Messiah—exalted be his glory.