This book is a blending and paraphrase of the 4 Gospels, Everything Jesus said and did by Charles Templeton. His son, Brad Templeton, has written a foreword to the online edition of this book.
The world-renowned Rev.Billy Graham has endorsed this book:
"The idea of someone synthesizing the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John into a single biography of the life of Christ and entitling it Jesus is an excellent one. It helps to accommodate both the outsider to Christianity looking in and the devout believer in Christ in their respective attempts to get the total picture of the life of Jesus as a whole.
I would also like to commend Charles Templeton, who claims to be an agnostic, for overall honesty in not letting interpretive biases creep into this presentation. Rather he has let the Gospel record speak for itself. Of course there are arbitrary decisions which had to be made with regard to the chronology of events in the life of our Lord and the actual sequence of His teaching, a few of which I would have perhaps placed in slightly different order, but none of these affect the cardinal doctrines of historic Christianity.
All in all it is my hope that this publication will have a deep and abiding impact on its readers equally in the areas of evangelism, edification and education."
Other commentaries on the book:
An excellent book that should be read by every evangelical Christian. It is thoroughly evangelical, conservative and fundamental. Every basic doctrine of the Christian church is to be heard loud and clear. I think it is a great piece of work. -- Dr. Paul Smith, The People's Church, Toronto
I like to think that the conversations reworded in the text are what we might have heard if we had walked the streets of Jerusalem two thousand years ago. -- Winnipeg Tribune
Here at last is a harmony of the Gospels that makes the old, old story live. I was prepared for a work that would soar, and it does! Wherever I have dipped into this anagram of the Gospels I have struck sound scholarship and forceful prose. The story of Jesus is rendered in a linguistic style that is neither breezy nor pedantic but freshly up to date." - Dr. Ernest T. Campbell, The Riverside Church, New York. For those who want to know more, further info is available at: http://www.templetons.com/charles/jesus/
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