The Complete Sayings of Jesus

In the Christian religion the life of Jesus Christ is documented in the New Testament of the Holy Bible which forms the basis of the beliefs of the Christian Church. This section records the life of Jesus Christ through His sayings and words. Each page provides information of the circumstances that surround his words and in a sequence of times and occasions. Reference to the Bible in relation to the Book, chapters and verse numbers in which the sayings can be found are also documented. The ability to read all of his words at one time and in chronological order provides an interesting perspective on the life of Jesus which is not easily obtained by reading isolated Scripture passages of the Bible and Jesus quotes.

Like the Jefferson Bible, this is an attempt to edit the four gospels into a consistent account, in this case focusing on the words of Jesus. There is plenty of connecting narrative around the instances where Jesus speaks, so this is better than simply presenting each quote out of context. The focus on what Jesus is attributed as saying makes it easier to browse the core texts of the New Testament. All in all, a very useful reference, and a great read.


The number of words in the New Testament is 181,253. Only 36,450 of these 181,253 words are the words of Christ—barely over 20 per cent.

Considered as verses, the New Testament has 7,959 verses, of which but 1,599 are sayings of Christ.

These relatively few sayings of Jesus have not a place apart, but run in an uneven distribution through the four Gospels (a few in other Books); and in each of the four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John—the "sayings" are unevenly distributed through the narrative. Often a "saying" recorded, it may be, by Matthew, is paraphrased, or even duplicated, by one or more of the other three biographers, none of whom seems to have intended either a chronological harmony with the others, or even a sustained sequence of his own.


Accordingly, only the devoted reader of the New Testament, the habitual reader, is sufficiently the delver to have become familiar with Christ's sayings—really familiar—familiar with the sayings not only as severally set down by the four evangels, but also as one message, one gospel proclaiming the Saviour's great objective.