‘The Gospel of St. John, rightly interpreted, is the best and simplest answer to those who profess to admire a vague and indistinct Christianity.’ There were many such in J. C. Ryle’s day, as in our own, and these final three volumes of his Expository Thoughts on the Gospels <\/i> series provide a detailed commentary upon, and ‘right interpretation’ of the fourth Gospel.<\/p>\n
Originally published between published between 1869 and 1873, these volumes differ from those previously published in the series, in that they contain ‘full explanatory notes on every verse of the portions expounded, forming, in fact, a complete Commentary’. The long gap between the publication of Luke (1858) and the appearance of the first volume of John (1869) is explained by the loss of Ryle’s second wife, Jessie, in 1860), his being responsible for the care of his five children (the eldest being just thirteen years of age at the time), and his move to Helmingham to the much larger parish of Stradbroke in 1861, with the greater burden of work that entailed.<\/p>\n
In these volumes Ryle shows again that, as in all his writing and preaching, he was first and foremost a pastor, and as J. I. Packer has pointed out, ‘alongside the question “Is it true?” the question “What effect will this have on ordinary people?” was always in his mind’.<\/p>\n
| 1:1-5<\/td>\n | Christ eternal,\u2014a distinct person,\u2014very God. \u2014the creator of all things,\u2014the source of all light and life<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1:6-13<\/td>\n | The minister\u2019s office,\u2014Christ the light of the world,\u2014the wickedness of man,\u2014the privileges of believers<\/td>\n | 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1:14<\/td>\n | The reality of Christ\u2019s incarnation<\/td>\n | 17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1:15-18<\/td>\n | The fulness of Christ,\u2014the superiority of Christ to Moses,\u2014Christ the revealer of the Father<\/td>\n | 24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1:19-28<\/td>\n | John the Baptist\u2019s humility,\u2014the blindness of the unconverted Jews<\/td>\n | 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1:29-34<\/td>\n | Christ the Lamb of God,\u2014Christ the taker away of sin,\u2014Christ he that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost<\/td>\n | 39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1:35-42<\/td>\n | The good done by testifying of Christ,\u2014the good believers may do to others<\/td>\n | 48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1:43-51<\/td>\n | Souls led by various ways,\u2014Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures,\u2014Philip\u2019s advice to Nathanael,\u2014high character of Nathanael<\/td>\n | 54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2:1-11<\/td>\n | Matrimony an honourable estate,\u2014the lawfulness of mirth and rejoicing,\u2014Christ\u2019s almighty power<\/td>\n | 63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2:12-25<\/td>\n | Irreverent use of holy places rebuked,\u2014words of Christ long remembered,\u2014Christ\u2019s perfect knowledge of man\u2019s heart<\/td>\n | 73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3:1-8<\/td>\n | The beginnings of some Christians very feeble, \u2014the necessity of the new birth,\u2014the Spirit\u2019s operation like the wind<\/td>\n | 84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3:9-21<\/td>\n | Spiritual ignorance,\u2014God\u2019s love the source of salvation,\u2014Christ\u2019s death the means of providing salvation,\u2014faith the instrument which makes salvation ours<\/td>\n | 99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3:22-36<\/td>\n | Jealousy and party spirit,\u2014true humility,\u2014Christ\u2019s dignity set forth,\u2014salvation a present thing<\/td>\n | 119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4:1-6<\/td>\n | Baptism, and its true position,\u2014our Lord\u2019s human nature<\/td>\n | 133<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4:7-26<\/td>\n | Christ\u2019s tact and condescension,\u2014Christ\u2019s readiness to give,\u2014the excellence of Christ\u2019s gifts,\u2014the necessity of conviction of sin,\u2014the uselessness of formal religion,\u2014Christ\u2019s kindness to great sinners<\/td>\n | 141<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4:27-30<\/td>\n | Christ\u2019s dealings marvellous,\u2014grace an absorbing principle,\u2014true converts zealous to do good<\/td>\n | 159<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4:31-42<\/td>\n | Christ\u2019s zeal to do good,\u2014encouragement to those who labour for Christ,\u2014men led to Christ in various ways<\/td>\n | 167<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4:43-54<\/td>\n | The rich have afflictions,\u2014the young may be sick and die,\u2014affliction a blessing,\u2014Christ\u2019s word as good as his presence<\/td>\n | 176<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5:1-15<\/td>\n | The misery caused by sin,\u2014the compassion of Christ,\u2014the lessons that recovery should teach<\/td>\n | 186<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5:16-23<\/td>\n | Some works lawful on the sabbath,\u2014the dignity and majesty of Christ<\/td>\n | 194<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5:24-29<\/td>\n | Hearing Christ the way to salvation,\u2014the privileges of true believers,\u2014Christ\u2019s power to give life, \u2014the final resurrection of all the dead<\/td>\n | 203<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5:30-39<\/td>\n | The honour Christ puts on his servants,\u2014the honour Christ puts on miracles,\u2014the honour<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Christ puts on the Scriptures<\/td>\n | 211<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5:40-47<\/td>\n | The reason why many are lost,\u2014one principal cause of unbelief,\u2014Christ\u2019s testimony to Moses<\/td>\n | 220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:1-14<\/td>\n | Christ\u2019s almighty power,\u2014the office of ministers, \u2014the sufficiency of the gospel for all mankind<\/td>\n | 227<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:15-21<\/td>\n | Christ\u2019s humility,\u2014the trials of Christ\u2019s disciples, \u2014Christ\u2019s power over the waters<\/td>\n | 235<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:22-27<\/td>\n | Christ\u2019s knowledge of man\u2019s heart,\u2014what Christ forbids,\u2014what Christ advises,\u2014what Christ promises<\/td>\n | 242<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:28-34<\/td>\n | The ignorance of natural man,\u2014the honour Christ puts on faith,\u2014the high privileges of Christ\u2019s hearers over those of the Jews in the wilderness<\/td>\n | 249<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:35-40<\/td>\n | Christ the bread of life,\u2014none cast out,\u2014the Father\u2019s will about all who come to Christ<\/td>\n | 258<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:41-51<\/td>\n | Christ\u2019s lowly condition an offence to some,\u2014man\u2019s natural impotence,\u2014salvation a present thing<\/td>\n | 266<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:52-59<\/td>\n | The true meaning of eating Christ\u2019s body and drinking Christ\u2019s blood<\/td>\n | 276<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:60-65<\/td>\n | Some of Christ\u2019s sayings hard,\u2014danger of putting carnal meanings on spiritual words,\u2014Christ\u2019s perfect knowledge of hearts<\/td>\n | 285<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6:66-71<\/td>\n | Backsliding an old sin,\u2014Peter\u2019s noble declaration, \u2014the little benefit some get from religious privileges<\/td>\n | 291<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new, re-typeset, clothbound edition of Ryle\u2019s popular expositional series on the Gospels. The Expository Thoughts can be used as a help in family worship, or as an aid in pastoral visitation, or simply as a companion to the Gospels in the private reading of Scripture. 288\u2013432 pp. per volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":128353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1499],"product_tag":[5595],"class_list":{"0":"post-191","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-commentaries","7":"product_tag-ebooks","8":"pa_binding-cloth-bound","9":"pa_binding-cloth-bound-ebook","10":"pa_binding-ebook","11":"pa_class-bc","12":"pa_era-19th-century","13":"pa_format-book","14":"pa_original-pub-date-1666","15":"pa_page-count-1567","16":"pa_recent-pub-date-jul-1-2012","17":"pa_recent-pub-date-year-6134","18":"pa_scripture-john-new-testament","19":"pa_set-expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-clothbound","20":"pa_subtitle-volume-5-john-part-1-chapters-1-6","21":"pa_theauthor-ryle-j-c","22":"pa_topic-no-topic-listed","23":"pa_vol-1573","25":"first","26":"instock","27":"purchasable","28":"product-type-variable","29":"has-default-attributes"},"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundle_price":[],"bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n |