As a child, I imagined that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John followed Jesus around with pen and paper in hand to write down what Jesus did. In this way, they compiled their Gospels. Nothing could be further from the truth. God kept it simple by ensuring that the ministry of Jesus was not accomplished in secret but was undertaken openly. Jesus lived in the full view of many spectators. This book explains how the Gospels record the life of Jesus, as seen through the eyes of those spectators, "then". As we read these spectator accounts, we step into the shoes (sandals) of those original spectators and thus also become spectators. "I want to see that for myself." This is an often-used phrase when a person wants to witness something happening in order fully to accept what has happened. We need to know for ourselves what has happened. Failing this, we need to hear what has happened from someone who has been a spectator to what has taken place.Though we are not an original spectator, we are in the best position to see for ourselves and make a decision for ourselves concerning the spectator report of the event in question. We can stand as close as possible to being a spectator, when we receive a spectator's account, thus placing ourselves in the best position short of being that spectator. The events in the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels also lies open to the eyes of spectators "now". These spectators are historians, archaeologists, scientists, linguists, doctors, theologians and experts in other fields. Their studies allow the Gospels to be seen in the light of twenty-first century scholarship and understanding. They also come to these incidents as spectators. They tell us what they too can observe, through their expertise, as modern-day spectators at these events.This book is a very good starting point for the reader to become a spectator of the life of Jesus. Today's Gospel readers can see themselves as standing with those first spectators. It was God's plan. God kept it simple. God sent his son Jesus to teach the world the ways of God. To show how humanity might live in unity and joy with God both now and for eternity. Teaching which is to be found in the spectator reports of our fellow human beings contained in the Gospels. Like them, all we are required to do is to believe, and tell others, "Nice One God".