Excerpt from When the King Came: Stories From the Four Gospels Once upon a time there was a Year One. Strangely enough, it was not the beginning of the years. The world was already very Old nobody knows how Old. People had been living on the earth, time out of mind, in mighty nations, fighting great battles and building great cities. But somehow, every thing seemed to begin over again that year, because that was when the King came. And we have taken it ever since as the most important Of all dates. When we say that this present year is Nineteen-hundred - and something, we mean that the Year One was just so many years ago. It is always to be remembered about that year that one of its days was Christmas Day. 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.