{"id":187,"date":"2013-01-30T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.225.232.228\/us\/product\/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-9\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:44:41","slug":"expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-9","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/banneroftruth.org\/us\/store\/commentaries\/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Expository Thoughts on the Gospels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Book Description<\/h2>\n<p>If the best way to understand the Christian faith is to read the Gospels, then the next most important books to read must be those which aid in the understanding of those Gospels. This is the aim of Ryle\u2019s <em>Expository Thoughts on the Gospels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As the first Gospel in the New Testament, Matthew was, not surprisingly, the first to be published in J. C. Ryle&#8217;s series of <em>Expository Thoughts on the Gospels<\/em> (1856). 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