Excerpt from Life in Palestine When Jesus Lived: A Short Hand-Book to the Synoptical Gospels Tms little book is intended to illustrate the first three Gospels. Its object is to present in as short a compass as possible such an account of the people from whom Jesus sprang, as shall enable readers of the Gospels, who have not access to larger works, to frame some notion ot the society in which he laboured, and the ideas and institutions with which he had to deal. It is, thus, in one sense, an introduction to the study of his life and teachings but it does not enter on the wide field of gospel criticism, and aims only at supplying the needful knowledge of the social and religious conditions of the work of Jesus. The materials amassed by scholars are so ample that my task has been only to weigh and select what seemed most suitable. Reference to the best sources of information available for English readers will enable those who wish to make further enquiry into a field of investigation which can never lose for us its supreme interest as long as Jesus remains to us the leader of our religious thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.