College, seminary, and church school students, teachers, ministers, and laymen will find here an illuminating account of the life and teaching of Jesus. Combining sound scholarship and simplicity of style, Dr. Hunter presents his material in three sections. The first contains a discussion of the sources of our information about Jesus and a sketch of the geographical, historical, and religious backgrounds of the Christian story. In the second section, Dr. Hunter deals with the years of Jesus’ life before the ministry and offers significant insights into the meaning of the Temptation. The ministry itself is the subject of the third and main section. Unique appendices set forth a reconstruction of the sayings-sources of Matthew and Luke, including the texts of Q, M, and L.