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 Rh a somewhat different aspect of Jesus' life was to introduce the general reader to the many remarkable additions to our knowledge of his times, and even of his own sayings, which have accumulated during the past few years. The study of the Talmud has contributed much new light, and has given local color to the scenes in which Jesus moved, while a more careful investigation of the Apocryphal Gospels and the Early Church Fathers has resulted in unearthing a number of traditions and traditional sayings of Jesus which in the judgment of competent theologians have nearly as much probability as those contained in the Gospels. These extra-canonical sayings of Jesus have been collected together by Dr. Alfred Resch, under the title of Agrapha, as the fourth part of the fifth volume of Gebhardt and Harnack's "Texte und Untersuchungen" (Leipsic, 1889). I have endeavored to include the most memorable of these in the two sermons in chapters iii. and vii. Resch divides his materials into Logia and Apocrypha, but there seems to me very little difference in the amount of evidence, in