Excerpt from The Story of the Nazarene: In Annotated Paraphrase As an aid to a better understanding of the events the related secular history of the day, both Jewish and Roman, is interwoven in the narrative. Other accessory matter has been added concerning chronology, geography, topography and localities, the social customs and political incidents of the time in accord with recent biblical scholarship, and the approved results of archeology. Still there is no deviation from the traditional view of Protestants and Catholics alike, unless for cogent reasons. The Gospel text is paraphrased so far as is needful to unfold its meaning. Annotations are incorporated in the account for sake of explanation and illustration, without extracting moral lessons, which have more virtue clad in their native armor of fact. In many cases, however, the scanty outline sketch of the Evangelist, though rigidly retained, has been filled in with imaginary details of strictly reasonable probability, so as to depict the scenes distinctly and vividly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.