Counting the Cost (14:25–33)
The Coin a Woman Lost and Found (15:8–10)
The Story of the Loving Father (15:11–32)
A Bad Man’s Good Example (16:1–13)
The Law which does not Change (16:14–18)
The Punishment of the Man who Never Noticed (16:19–31)
Laws of the Christian Life (17:1–10)
The Rarity of Gratitude (17:11–19)
The Signs of his Coming (17:20–37)
The Master and the Children (18:15–17)
The Man who would not Pay the Price (18:18–30)
The Man who would not be Silenced (18:35–43)
The Guest of the Man whom Everyone Despised (19:1–10)
The King’s Trust in his Servants (19:11–27)
The Entry of the King (19:28–40)
The Pity and the Anger of Jesus (19:41–8)
A Parable which was a Condemnation (20:9–18)
The Sadducees’ Question (20:27–40)
The Warnings of Jesus (20:41–4)
The Love of Worldly Honour (20:45–7)
And Satan Entered into Judas (22:1–6)
The Last Meal Together (22:7–23)
Strife among the Disciples of Christ (22:24–30)
Peter’s Tragedy (22:31–8 and 54–62)
Mocking and Scourging and Trial (22:63–71)
Trial Before Pilate and Silence Before Herod (23:1–12)
The Jews Blackmail Pilate (23:13–25)
The Road to Calvary (23:26–31)
There they Crucified him (23:32–8)
The Promise of Paradise (23:39–43)
The Man who gave Jesus a Tomb (23:50–6)
The Wrong Place to Look (24:1–12)
The Sunset Road that Turned to Dawn (24:13–35)
SERIES FOREWORD
(by Ronnie Barclay)
My father always had a great love for the English language and its literature. As a student at the University of Glasgow, he won a prize in the English class – and I have no doubt that he could have become a Professor of English instead of Divinity and Biblical Criticism. In a pre-computer age, he had a mind like a computer that could store vast numbers of quotations, illustrations, anecdotes and allusions; and, more remarkably still, he could retrieve them at will. The editor of this revision has, where necessary, corrected and attributed the vast majority of these quotations with considerable skill and has enhanced our pleasure as we read quotations from Plato to T. S. Eliot.
There is another very welcome improvement in the new text. My mother was one of five sisters, and my grandmother was a commanding figure as the Presbyterian minister’s wife in a small village in Ayrshire in Scotland. She ran that small community very efficiently, and I always felt that my father,