 Todd Lawson details the writings of John of Damascus who was only if the first Christians to detail the denial of Jesus’ crucification and writes it is a variation of Docetism and charges Islam with the denial of crucification.Although it is not clear if it was known to John that the Muslims denied the crucification or not, rather this is his own take on it as he presented these ideas to his own followers in Greek so the Muslims could not understand it and therefore he could say as he pleased.Lawson states that the interpretation of John of Damascus is unjustifiable as the Qur'an's assertion that the Jews did not crucify Jesus being very different from saying that Jesus was not crucified, explaining that it is the varied Quranic exegetes in Tafsir, and not the Qur'an itself, that denies the crucifixion, further stating that the message in the 4