Notes to Text
Notes to Text
Introduction
1. The material common to Matthew and Luke but not found in Mark is conventionally labelled Q. The teaching peculiar to Matthew is labelled M; that peculiar to Luke is labelled L.
2. T.W. Manson, The Teaching of Jesus, second edition (Cambridge, 1935).
3. T.W. Manson, The Sayings of Jesus, second edition (London, 1949).
4. The Sayings, p. 35.
Chapter 1
1. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine 3.16.
2. Augustine, Homilies on John 26.1.
3. Bernard, The Love of God 4.11.
Chapter 3
1. As is pointed out by T.W. Manson in The Teaching, p.308.
Chapter 4
1. Mekhilta (rabbinical commentary) on Exodus 31:14.
Chapter 8
1. R. Bultmann, The History of the Synoptic Tradition (Oxford, 1963), p.138.
2. E.g. by J.N. Farquhar, The Crown of Hinduism (Oxford, 1913); cf. E.J. Sharpe, Not to Destroy but to Fulfil (Lund, 1965).
3. The Sayings, p.135.
Chapter 10
1. E. Brunner, The Divine Imperative (London, 1937), p.350.
Chapter 11
1. H. Latimer, Sermon preached in St. Edward's Church, Cambridge, in 1529, quoted in J.P. Smyth, How We Got Our Bible (London, [1885] 1938), p.102.
Chapter 13
1. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 6.8.2.
Chapter 15
1. Theodore de Beze (Beza) to King Charles IX of France at the Abbey of Poissy, near Paris, in 1561.
Chapter 16
1. A. Whyte, Lord, Teach Us to Pray, second edition (London, 1948), pp.33-35.
Chapter 18
1. The Scofield Reference Bible, second edition (Oxford, 1917), p.1,002. The sharpness of the antithesis is modified in The New Scofield Reference Edition (Oxford, 1967), p.1,000.
Chapter 20
1. Didache 9.5.
Chapter 21
1. E. Gosse, Father and Son (London, 1928), pp.265-267.
2. Plato, Republic 2. 382a-b.
Chapter 22
1. M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma (London, 1895), p.95.
2. D.S. Cairns, The Faith that Rebels (London, 1928,, p.25.
3. The Sayings, pp. 89-90.
Chapter 23
1. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxvi
2. C.F.D. Moule, The Birth of the New Testament, third edition (London, 1981), p.117.
3. The Teaching, pp. 75-80.
Chapter 24
1. To this source (commonly labelled M) may also be assigned Matthew 18:17, with its direction that the insubordinate brother should be treated `as a Gentile and a tax collector'.
Chapter 25
1. A. Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus (London, 1910), p.357.
2. The Quest, p.369.
3. T.W. Manson, Studies in the Gospels and Epistles (Manchester, 1962), pp.9-10.
Chapter 26
1. S.G.F. Brandon, Jesus and the Zealots (Manchester, 1967), p.172.
Chapter 30
1. Justin, Dialogue with Trypho 88.3.
2. Gospel of Thomas, Saying 82; also in Origen, Homilies on Jeremiah 20.3.
Chapter 35
1. Yalqut Shim'oni (medieval compilation) 1.766.
Chapter 39
1. T.W. Manson, The Savings, p.87.
Chapter 40
1. The Sayings, pp.72-73.
2. D. Hill, The Gospel of Matthew (London, 1972), p.162.
Chapter 41
1. The Sayings, p.73. Cf. M. Hengel, The Charismatic Leader and his Followers (Edinburgh, 1981), pp.1-20: in view of the urgent nearness of the kingdom of God there is no time to lose; all ordinary human considerations and ties must give way to this.
2. A. Gammie, Rev. John McNeill: his Life and Work (Glasgow, 1939), p.201.
Chapter 44
1. Shir ha-Shirim Rabba 5:2.
Chapter 46
1. Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2.
Chapter 48
1. B.M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (London/New York, 1971), p.169.
2. H.B. Swete, The Gospel according to St. Mark, third edition (London, 1909), p.229.
3. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Berakot 55 b.
Chapter 51
1. C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (London, 1940), p.115.
2. J. Denney, The Way Everlasting(London, 1911), p.171. It is noteworthy that, in the judgment of all the nations, it is similarly failure to care for those in need that incurs the sentence: `Depart ... into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels' (Matt. 25:41).
Chapter 52
1. The Sayings, p.308.
Chapter 53
1. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, IV, i.
2. The Sayings, p.220.
Chapter 54
1. E. Schweizer, The Good News According to Mark (London, 1971), p.215.
Chapter 55
1. Plato, Phaedo 69 c.
2. Origen, Against Celsus 8.16.
3. Westminster Shorter Catechism, Answer to Question 31.
4. Burns, Holy Willie's Prayer, stanza 1.
5. J.E. Powell, `Quicunque Vult', in Sermons from Great St. Mary's, ed. H.W. Montefiore (London, 1968),.p.96.
6. J. Calvin, Romans and Thessalonians, English translation (Edinburgh, 1961), pp.114-115.
Chapter 57
1. Reprinted in W.M. Christie, Palestine Calling (London, 1939), pp. 118-120.
Chapter 58
1. W. Manson, Jesus the Messiah (London, 1943), pp. 29f., 39f.
Chapter 62
1. Palestinian Talmud, tractate Berakot, 9.7.
2. T.W. Manson, `The Cleansing of the Temple', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 33 (1950-51), p.279, n. 1. (He, however, accepted the setting of Luke 13:35 as original and supposed that Jesus was bidding temporary farewell to the people of Galilee, saying that they would next see him in Jerusalem.)
Chapter 63
1. Synoptic Tradition, p.125.
2. Cf. G.H. Lang, The Revelation of Jesus Christ (London, 1945), pp.70, 387.
Chapter 64
1. The Sayings, p.147.
Chapter 67
1. Josephus, Jewish War 2.125.
2. T.-W.-Manson, Ethics and the Gospel (London, 1960), p.90.
3. The Sayings, p.341.
Chapter 68
1. Cf. A. Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, second edition (London, 1927), pp. 125-131.
Chapter 70
1. J. Denney, The Death of Christ, sixth edition (London, 1907), p. 160.