The Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Acts

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. So many volumes have been published in this field that it may seem a work of supererogation to add to the list. Our only excuse for doing so is that we have made a new pre scutation and arrangement Of the existing material, and that we have attempted to give it added interest and life by joining with it a study of the personalities of the writers involved and of the influence of their personalities upon their books. As far as we know, this has not been done before in the same manner or to the same degree. One of the writer's students gave a series of lectures in a Western college upon Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and he reports that at the end of the course the president of the school thanked him for them and said: Do you know, I never more than half believed before that those evangel ists were real men! Now they will be living personalities for me. That has been one aim in this and the preced ing volumes - to give added interest to the study of the New Testament books, because in them we were able to see the manifested characters of the men who wrote them, and to realize that however little we might know of these authors, they yet were not mere shadows or myths, but real men with real messages taken out of their own real experience in life. Too many people have only half believed that these authors were real men, and for that reason they may have found themselves only half interested in their writings.

So many volumes have been published in this field that it may seem a work of supererogation to add to the list. Our only excuse for doing so is that we have made a new pre scutation and arrangement Of the existing material, and that we have attempted to give it added interest and life by joining with it a study of the personalities of the writers involved and of the influence of their personalities upon their books. As far as we know, this has not been done before in the same manner or to the same degree. One of the writer's students gave a series of lectures in a Western college upon Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and he reports that at the end of the course the president of the school thanked him for them and said: Do you know, I never more than half believed before that those evangel ists were real men! Now they will be living personalities for me. That has been one aim in this and the preced ing volumes — to give added interest to the study of the New Testament books, because in them we were able to see the manifested characters of the men who wrote them, and to realize that however little we might know of these authors, they yet were not mere shadows or myths, but real men with real messages taken out of their own real experience in life. Too many people have only half believed that these authors were real men, and for that reason they may have found themselves only half interested in their writings.