The Teaching of Jesus

The crowd presses so close that Jesus has to borrow Simon’s fishing boat; with the nets still being washed ashore, he sits down and teaches from the water.

In this early-twentieth-century study, George Jackson returns to the Gospels and the Jewish world in which Jesus spoke: by the lakeshore, at dinner tables, in conversation with disciples and opponents. Jesus left no book, and the recorded sayings are brief and unsystematic—yet Jackson argues they have held a singular power over minds and hearts. He asks readers to take those words seriously without setting them against the rest of the New Testament, and to hear their spiritual claim in their own lives. How did such homely, spoken words come to seem impossible to outgrow?

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