Harmony

of the

GospelS

Steven L. Cox

Kendell H. Easley

nashville, tennessee

Dedication

To the love of our lives and colleagues in the faith

Nancy M. Easley, Ed.D. and Vivian T. Cox

HCSB Harmony of the Gospels

Copyright © 2007 by Holman Bible Publishers

Nashville, Tennessee. All Rights Reserved.

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ISBN: 978-0-80549-444-0

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Preface

The pattern of Gospel harmonization we have followed in the HCSB Harmony of the Gospels was begun by John A. Broadus in the nineteenth century and culminated in A Harmony of the Gospels, published in 1893. Broadus was aided with this volume by his protégé, A. T. Robertson. Over the next thirty years Robertson revised the Broadus harmony and published that revision in 1922 with George H. Doran Company and Harper & Brothers under the title A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version.

Both Broadus and Robertson brought their minds and their hearts to the study of the Gospels. Lifelong immersion in the Gospels had a transforming effect on both men. When Broadus died in March 1895, Rabbi Moses of Louisville paid him a remarkable tribute, saying that with Broadus’s death, “The glory of Louisville has departed.”

Before I became familiar with Dr. Broadus, I knew Christianity only as a creed which seemed absolutely incomprehensible to me. I judged it mainly from the untold, unmerited misery, the agony of ages which Christian rulers and nations had entailed upon poor Israel under the impulse given by Christian priests and teachers. But when I learned to know and revere in Broadus a Christian, my conception of Christianity and my attitude toward it underwent a complete change. Broadus was the precious fruit by which I learned to judge of the tree of Christianity....