This book has been largely based upon some informal instruction which I have given to my pupils in Oxford. But I have endeavoured to make every chapter intelligible to readers who are unacquainted with Greek, the welcome which has been extended to my Books of the New Testament having proved to me that there are many persons who, whether they can read Greek or not, want to know the true history of the Gospels. It has been necessary to omit all discussion of many interesting questions. But, I trust that attention has been called to all the most vital, and especially to those which bear upon the Person and teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ. - From the Preface