ILLUSTRATED COMMENTARY

ON

THE NEW TESTAMENT

BY AMERICAN AND ENGLISH SCHOLARS OF VARIOUS
EVANGELICAL DENOMINATIONS

EDITED BY

PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK
PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN REVISION COMMITTEE

IN FOUR VOLUMES

VOL. I

Introduction, and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1889

PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,

President of the American Bible Revision Committee. Prof. of Sacred Literature and Church

History, Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. American Editor of Lange's Commentary. Author of "Church History" and other exegetical and historical works.

MATTHEW B. RIDDLE, D.D.,

Member of the American Bible Revision Committee. Prof. of Biblical Literature in Hartford
Theological Seminary. Author of revised edition of " Harmony of the Gospels," Greek and
English.
WILLIAM F. MOULTON, D.D.,

Member of the English Bible Revision Committee. Prof of Church History, The Leys School,
Cambridge. Author of History of the English Bible."

EDWARD HAYES PLUMPTRE, D.D.,

Member of the English Bible Revision Committee. Dean of Wells. in Prison."

JOSEPH ANGUS, D.D.,

Author of "Spirits

Member of the English Bible Revision Committee. President of Regent's Park College, Author of Bible Handbook," "Christ our Life," etc.

London.

J. S. HOWSON, D.D.,

Dean of Chester. One of the authors of Conybeare and Howson's "Life and Epistles of St. Paul."

WILLIAM MILLIGAN, D.D.,

Member of the English Bible Revision Committee. Prof. of Biblical Literature, University of Aberdeen.

Canon DONALD SPENCE, B.D.,

Rector St. Pancras, London. biblical works.

Author of "Teachings of the Twelve Apostles," and other

Principal DAVID BROWN, D.D.,

Member of the English Bible Revision Committee. Principal of Free Church College, Aberdeen. Author of a number of exegetical works.

WILLIAM B. POPE, M.A.,

Compendium of Christian

President of Wesleyan College, Didsbury, Manchester. Author of "
Theology," Prayers of St. Paul," etc. Pres. British Wesleyan Conference, 1877.

J. RAWSON LUMBY, D.D.,

MARCUS DODS, D.D.,

Member of the English Bible Revision Committee. Prof. of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Author of "Ancient Creeds," etc.

Author of "Introduction to the New Testament." Contributor to the "Expositor," Parables of Our Lord," 66 Com. on Thessalonians," etc.

J. OSWALD DYKES, D.D.,

Regent Square Church, London. Author of "Laws of the Kingdom," "A Study from Old Testament History," etc.

PATON J. GLOAG, D.D.,

Author of "Practical Christianity," "The Messianic Prophesies," "Commentary on the Acts and Catholic Epistles."

Professor of Theology in the Free Church College, Aberdeen.

Apostle Peter," and other critical and exegetical works.

S. D. F. SALMOND, M.A.,

WILLIAM M. THOMSON, D.D.,

Author of "The Land and the Book."

WILLIAM H. THOMSON, M.D.,

Late of Beirut, Syria.

ARNOLD GUYOT, Ph.D., LL.D.,

Late Professor of Geology and Physical Geography in College of New Jersey, Princeton. Author of standard geographical works, maps, etc.