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Introduction, by John Haynes Holmes 15
Introduction, in Which the Sources of This History Are Principally
Treated 25
CHAPTER I
Place of Jesus in the History of the World 67
CHAPTER II
Infancy and Youth of Jesus—His First Impressions 81
CHAPTER III
Education of Jesus 89
CHAPTER IV
The Order of Thought Which Surrounded the Development of Jesus 99
CHAPTER V
The First Saying of Jesus—His Ideas of a Divine Father and of a Pure Religion—First Disciples 119
CHAPTER VI
John the Baptist—Visit of Jesus to John, and His Abode in the Desert of Judea—Adoption of the Baptism of John 135
CHAPTER VII
Development of the Ideas of Jesus Respecting the Kingdom of God 148
CHAPTER VIII
Jesus at Capernaum 160
CHAPTER IX
The Disciples of Jesus 173
CHAPTER X
The Preachings on the Lake 184
CHAPTER XI
The Kingdom of God Conceived as the Inheritance of the
Poor 194
CHAPTER XII
Embassy from John in Prison to Jesus—Death of John—Relations of His School with That of Jesus 206
CHAPTER XIII
First Attempts on Jerusalem 213
CHAPTER XIV
Intercourse of Jesus with the Pagans and the Samaritans 227
CHAPTER XV
Commencement of the Legends Concerning Jesus—His Own
Idea of His Supernatural Character 235
CHAPTER XVI
Miracles 248
CHAPTER XVII
Definitive Form of the Ideas of Jesus Respecting the Kingdom of God 259
CHAPTER XVIII
Institutions of Jesus 273
CHAPTER XIX
Increasing Progression of Enthusiasm and of Exaltation 285
CHAPTER XX
Opposition to Jesus 295
CHAPTER XXI
Last Journey of Jesus to Jerusalem 305
CHAPTER XXII
Machinations of the Enemies of Jesus 319
CHAPTER XXIII
Last Week of Jesus 329
CHAPTER XXIV
Arrest and Trial of Jesus 344
CHAPTER XXV
Death of Jesus 360
CHAPTER XXVI
Jesus in the Tomb 370
CHAPTER XXVII
Fate of the Enemies of Jesus 376
CHAPTER XXVIII
Essential Character of the Work of Jesus 381