"JESUS saved me!" declared Bro. Jerry Murillo, 28 years old, in an interview as he showed the news reporter the scar etched on his left chest caused by a holdupper's (armed robber) bullet.

He confessed that he never believed testimonies of JESUS Miracle Crusade brethren when he heard them say they experienced being invulnerable to bullets, or being unharmed in holdup incidents. But what he thought impossible happpened to him one day.

Bro. Jerry was on his way home a little past midnight on April 29, 1990, and at the entrance of Horacio dela Costa Subdivision, Lagro, Novaliches, Quezon City, he was held up by a man with a .38 caliber pistol.

As Bro. Jerry pleaded to the robber not to harm him, another holdupper darted out from the dark holding a home-made shotgun, "sumpak." They held him and struggled to take his belongings.

He prayed to GOD for help and shouted, "HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD!"

Surprised, the holduppers suddenly took their hands off him. Then out of the dark there appeared a white car approaching where they stood which somehow distracted the men's attention. But one of the men nervously warned Bro. Jerry not to run or else they will shoot him.

After the car passed them by, a mysterious force from behind pushed Bro. Jerry forward so that he could not help but run away from the holduppers, but after just two steps away, one of the men shouted "Stop!"

Bro. Jerry stopped and instantly turned around to face them, and from just a meter away, the man with the .38 pistol fired his gun towards him.

He again shouted, "HALLELUJAH!" as the force of the shot threw him back one-and-a-half meters farther and he fell to the ground. When he lifted his head, he saw the two holduppers were already very far away and have escaped in fear!

And when he examined his chest, his t-shirt had no blood, only a tiny hole -- the entry point of the bullet -- and on his body was a slight gunshot wound from which the bullet merely bounced off his chest.

The medico legal certificate issued to him on May 3, 1990 by Dr. Honorata C. Gonzales, Chief, Medical Records Division, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, goes: a grazing 20 gunshot wound, (1) lower anterior chest. He was attended to by Dr. Luis Panuncialman.