Jesus the Christ

A Study of the Messiah and His Mission
according to Holy Scriptures both
Ancient and Modern by James E. Talmage

CHAPTER 13    Honored by Strangers, Rejected By His Own

The direct route from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria; but many Jews, particularly Galileans, chose to follow an indirect though longer way rather than traverse the country of a people so despised by them as were the Samaritans…

CHAPTER 14    Continuation of Our Lord’s Ministry in Galilee

Early in the morning following that eventful Sabbath in Capernaum, our Lord arose "a great while before day" and went in quest of seclusion beyond the town…

CHAPTER 15    The Lord of the Sabbath

The observance of the Sabbath as a holy day was prominent among the Lord’s requirements of His people, Israel, from a very early period in their history as a nation…

CHAPTER 16    The Chosen Twelve

The night preceding the morn on which the Twelve Apostles were called and ordained was spent by the Lord in solitary seclusion; He had "continued all night in prayer to…"

CHAPTER 17    The Sermon on the Mount

    At some time very near that of the ordination of the Twelve, Jesus delivered a remarkable discourse, which, in reference to the place where it was given, has come to be known as the Sermon on the…

CHAPTER 18    As One Having Authority

Matthew’s account of the invaluable address, known to us as the Sermon on the Mount, is closed with a forceful sentence of his own, referring to the effect of the Master’s words upon the…