II THE KORAN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE, DEATH, AND TRANSLATION IN attempting to give an account of the life of Jesus Christ in the very words of the Koran, there are three difficulties that meet us at the outset. The first relates to the general piecemeal character of the Koran as a book. It has no chronological order nor logical sequence. Its verses were revealed at different times and in different places, and throw together in confusion, laws and legends, facts and fancies, prayers and imprecations.