The Complete Sayings of Jesus

The number of words in the New Testament is 181253. Only 36450 of these 181253 words are the words of Christ--barely over 20 per cent.Considered as verses the New Testament has 7959 verses of which but 1599 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.If relatively few persons in a Christian country are habitual readers of the sayings of Christ that may be because relatively few persons are delvers.The publisher is convinced that this book provides the means for the nonreaders of the New Testament to become familiar with Jesus the Christ his sayings and his great purpose without delving--indeed without effort so engaging is the story here recorded--a glowing short story.