Christ is No One’s Debtor (10:28–31)
The Request Made out of Ambition (10:35–40)
The Price of Salvation (10:41–5)
A Miracle by the Wayside (10:46–52)
The Coming of the King (11:1–6)
The One Who is Coming (11:7–10)
The Quiet before the Storm (11:11)
The Fruitless Fig Tree (11:12–14, 20–1)
A Cunning Question and a Piercing Answer (11:27–33)
Rejection and Retribution (12:1–12)
The Wrong Idea of the Life to Come (12:18–27)
Love for God and Love for Neighbour (12:28–34)
The Wrong Kind of Religion (12:37b–40)
The Dangers of the Last Days (13:3–6, 21–3)
His Coming Again (13:7–8, 24–7)
Preparing for the Feast (14:12–16)
The Symbol of Salvation (14:22–6)
The Failure of Friends (14:27–31)
Courage and Cowardice (14:54, 66–72)
The Choice of the Mob (15:6–15)
The Soldiers’ Mockery (15:16–20)
Tragedy and Triumph (15:33–41)
The Man who gave Jesus a Tomb (15:42–7)
The Commission of the Church (16:9–20)
SERIES FOREWORD
(by Ronnie Barclay)
My father always had a great love for the English language and its literature. As a student at the University of Glasgow, he won a prize in the English class – and I have no doubt that he could have become a Professor of English instead of Divinity and Biblical Criticism. In a pre-computer age, he had a mind like a computer that could store vast numbers of quotations, illustrations, anecdotes and allusions; and, more remarkably still, he could retrieve them at will. The editor of this revision has, where necessary, corrected and attributed the vast majority of these quotations with considerable skill and has enhanced our pleasure as we read quotations from Plato to T. S. Eliot.
There is another very welcome improvement in the new text. My mother was one of five sisters, and my grandmother was a commanding figure as the Presbyterian minister’s wife in a small village in Ayrshire in Scotland. She ran that small community very efficiently, and I always felt that my father, surrounded by so many women, was more than somewhat overawed by it all! I am sure that this is the reason why his use