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'RY OF JESUS

THE MINISTRY OF JESUS

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PREFACE

To many of us who earnestly desire to know the events of the life of Jesus and his teaching, the four Gospels together present a confused account, not easy to straighten out by one's own effort. Controversies many and long, continued over the centuries, obscure the central facts of our Master's life among men, and are somewhat baffling to those who have not time to study all the questions involved. So perhaps we become discouraged in our hope to understand his life, and fail to touch the living personality, transcendent over all controversies.

While the opening and closing chapters of Matthew and Luke and the whole of the fourth Gospel will always be given their full value when studying the life of Christ, it seems to me that we need to learn over and over again, and more and more deeply, what Jesus in his lifetime taught, in distinction to what has since been taught about him; or, to express it differently, should we not make our knowledge of the work which his Father gave him to do, and the way in which he accomplished it, the chief source of our inspiration for our own life-work?

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