Excerpt from The Fourfold Gospel: The Proclamation of the New Kingdom It will be maintained that this - that is, swimming to the shore and not making signs of assent -was the meaning of some early and obscure tradition misinterpreted by Luke, who has also chronologically misplaced it, but who has had the honesty to preserve the difficult word that led him astray. The Preface to Luke's Gospel states that he attempted to write in [chronological] order, as well as accurately but it also implies that other evangelists had failed in this; and it is not to be expected that Luke would be always successful. If in this instance Luke has made a mistake, we have at all events compensations. We are relieved from the necessity of supposing that Mark and Matthew omitted what (according to Luke) was a turning-point in Peter's career. And in the Johannine substitute we find a narrative that gives us a peculiarly beautiful and (so to speak) natural account of the impression produced on Peter by the sympathetic insight, love, and regenerating power, of the risen Saviour. 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.