Category: History - Religious

The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A Study

"_I would preach ... the need to the world of the faith in a Christ, the claim that Jesus is the Christ, and the demand for an intelligent faith, which indeed shall transcend but shall not despise knowledge, or neglect to have a knowledge to transcend._"--John Patterson Coyle

Chapters

17. Chapter 17

234. Jesus as a teacher was popular and practical rather than systematic and theoretical. The freshness of his ideas is proof that he was not lacking in thorough and orderly thi...

7. Chapter 7

84. But John had marked limitations. He knew well the righteousness of God; he knew, and, in effect, proclaimed God's readiness to forgive them that would turn from their wicked...

19. Chapter 19

264. Many of those who look for a distinct significance in the title "the Son of Man," find in it a claim by Jesus to be the ideal or typical man, in whom humanity has found its...

6. Chapter 6

68. It is instructive in connection with this inwardness of Jesus' life to recall the rich familiarity with the whole world of nature which appears in his parables and other tea...

14. Chapter 14

193. The paschal memories furnished to Jesus an opportunity to establish for his disciples an institution which should symbolize the new covenant which he was soon to seal with...

5. Chapter 5

50. If the public ministry of Jesus began with the spring of 26 or 27, the close of three years of activity would, come at the Passover of 29 or 30. The former of these dates ag...

8. Chapter 8

102. The visit to Cana seems to have found a place in the fourth gospel, because there the new disciples discovered in their master miraculous powers which were to them a sign t...

3. Chapter 3

22. The reason for the lack of written Christian records of Jesus' life from the earliest time seems to be, not that the apostles had a small sense of the importance of his eart...

11. Chapter 11

155. Before he put to his disciples the crucial question, he who knew what was in man (John ii. 25) was confident that they were ready for it. It was after the rebuff in Galilee...

10. Chapter 10

136. The method which Jesus chose has already been repeatedly indicated,--teaching and preaching on the one hand, and works of helpfulness to men on the other. The character of...

13. Chapter 13

179. The day following the supper at Bethany--that is, the first day of the week--witnessed the welcome of Jesus to Jerusalem by the jubilant multitudes. His mode of entering th...

12. Chapter 12

168. It has been customary to find in the long section peculiar to Luke (ix. 51 to xviii. 14) a fuller account of the Perean ministry, as it has been called. For it opens with a...

16. Chapter 16

220. Keim seeks to avoid the difficulties which his own acute criticism disclosed in the ordinary vision-theory, by another which rejects the gospel stories as legendary, yet fr...

21. Chapter 21

40. General questions. _Was the temple twice cleansed?_ (see sect. 116). Probably not. The two reports (Jn. ii. 13-22; Mk. xi. 15-18 ¶s) are similar in respect of Jesus' indigna...

18. Chapter 18

248. The supernatural knowledge of Jesus, so far as its exercise is apparent in the gospels, was concerned with the truths intimately related to his religious teaching or his Me...

4. Chapter 4

35. A word may be due to two other claimants to recognition as original records from the life of Jesus. One class is represented by that word of the Lord which Paul quoted to th...

9. Chapter 9

123. Arrived in Galilee, Jesus seems to have returned to his home at Nazareth, while his disciples went back to their customary occupations, until he summoned them again to join...

2. Chapter 2

9. The leaders of the popular thought, on the other hand, were chiefly noted for their religious zeal and theological acumen. They represented the outgrowth of that spirit which...

15. Chapter 15

207. Among the bystanders few of the disciples of Jesus were to be found--they were hiding in fear. Yet some faithful women, and two courageous councillors of Jerusalem, were bo...

22. Chapter 22

68. General questions. _The mission of the seventy_. Luke records two missions, that of the twelve (ix. 1-6), and that of the seventy (x. 1-24). Many regard these as doublets, s...

20. Chapter 20

4. The most important treatment of the subject is the article JESUS CHRIST by William Sanday in the _Hastings Bible Dictionary_ (1899). It is of the highest value, discussing th...

1. Chapter 1

"_I would preach ... the need to the world of the faith in a Christ, the claim that Jesus is the Christ, and the demand for an intelligent faith, which indeed shall transcend bu...

23. Chapter 23

i. 16 76 vi. 5 267 xi. 2 85 xxxv. 5f. 126 xlii. 1 85 li. 2 254 liii. 96, 239 liii. 7 93 lviii. 76 lxi. 1f. 45, 85, 126 lxiii. 16 262

24. Chapter 24

i. 14 58, 269 1. 19 to iv. 42 40, 101 i. 25 78 i. 26f. 93 i. 28 92, 284 i. 29 93 i. 29-36 80 i. 30-34 93 i. 31 82 i. 32-34 84 i. 35f. 93 i. 38 20, 226 i. 40f., 43-45 92 i. 41-45...