nothing, and with only a year or two of whose life we are acquainted? Now, however certain it may be that our materials are insufficient for a “biography,” they are very weighty in other respects, and even their silence on the first thirty years is instructive. They are weighty because they give us information upon three important points: In the first place, they offer us a plain picture of Jesus’ teaching, in regard both to its main features and to its individual application; in the second place,