I won't start a new thread. I'll stick with:-
Is the Muslim Jesus cited in the Qur'an possibly historical?
I don't think you could help me...... well, you didn't offer anything, so I called an old work colleague A Muslim, and asked him.
He came straight back and sent this brief text to me, just to give me an idea about how some Muslims do believe that Jesus may well have been substituted, and how m,y suggestion about Pilate pardoning and freeing a much loved Jesus is not so impossible. He was very positive. Here it is:-
Islamic Traditions: A Replacement for the Messiah
The Qur’an states very clearly “…for of a surety they killed him (Jesus) not,” (see Qur’an 4:157-159) It further purports that not only was Christ not crucified but that Allah raised Him to Himself and those present were full of doubt. This has led many Muslim scholars to interpret that someone else died on the cross instead of Jesus, the Messiah.
Sometimes it's handy to live in a multicultural country.