| Series Foreword | xiii |
| General Introduction | xv |
| General Foreword | xvii |
| Editor's Preface | xxi |
| Introduction | xxv |
| The Six Accents in the Voice of Jesus | 1 |
| The Accent of Confidence (11:1-6) | 1 |
| The Accent of Admiration (11:7-11) | 5 |
| Violence and the Kingdom (11:12-15) | 8 |
| The Accent of Sorrowful Rebuke (11:16-19) | 11 |
| The Accent of Heartbroken Condemnation (11:20-4) | 12 |
| The Accent of Authority (11:25-7) | 15 |
| The Accent of Compassion (11:28-30) | 18 |
| Crisis | 21 |
| Breaking the Sabbath Law (12:1-8) | 24 |
| The Claim of Human Need (12:1-8) (contd) | 27 |
| Master of the Sabbath (12:1-8) (contd) | 30 |
| Love and Law (12:9-14) | 31 |
| The Challenge Accepted (12:9-14) (contd) | 34 |
| The Characteristics of the Servant of the Lord (12:15-21) | 37 |
| Satan's Defences are Breached (12:22-9) | 40 |
| The Jewish Exorcists (12:22-9) (contd) | 43 |
| The Impossibility of Neutrality (12:30) | 45 |
| The Sin Beyond Forgiveness (12:31-3) | 47 |
| The Lost Awareness (12:31-3) (contd) | 50 |
| Hearts and Words (12:34-7) | 53 |
| The Only Sign (12:38-42) | 56 |
| The Peril of the Empty Heart (12:43-5) | 59 |
| True Kinship (12:46-50) | 61 |
| Many Things in Parables | 62 |
| The Sower went out to Sow (13:1-9, 18-23) | 66 |
| The Word and the Hearer (13:1-9, 18-23) (contd) | 69 |
| No Despair (13:1-9, 18-23) (contd) | 72 |
| The Truth and the Listener (13:10-17, 34-5) | 74 |
| Life's Stern Law (13:10-17, 34-5) (contd) | 78 |
| Human Blindness and God's Purpose (13:10-17, 34-5) (contd) | 79 |
| The Act of an Enemy (13:24-30, 36-43) | 84 |
| The Time for Judgment (13:24-30, 36-43) (contd) | 87 |
| The Small Beginning (13:31-2) | 88 |
| The Transforming Power of Christ (13:33) | 91 |
| The Working of the Leaven (13:33) (contd) | 95 |
| All in the Day's Work (13:44) | 98 |
| The Precious Pearl (13:45-6) | 101 |
| The Catch and the Separation (13:47-50) | 103 |
| Old Gifts used in a New Way (13:51-2) | 105 |
| The Barrier of Unbelief (13:53-8) | 107 |
| The Tragic Drama of John the Baptist (14:1-12) | 108 |
| The Fall of Herod (14:1-12) (contd) | 111 |
| Compassion and Power (14:13-21) | 115 |
| The Place of the Disciple in the Work of Christ (14:13-21) (contd) | 118 |
| The Making of a Miracle (14:13-21) (contd) | 119 |
| In the Hour of Trouble (14:22-7) | 121 |
| Collapse and Recovery (14:28-33) | 124 |
| The Ministry of Christ (14:34-6) | 126 |
| Clean and Unclean (15:1-9) | 127 |
| The Foods which Cannot be Eaten (15:1-9) (contd) | 130 |
| The Ways of Cleansing (15:1-9) (contd) | 132 |
| Breaking God's Law to Keep Human Law (15:1-9) (contd) | 134 |
| The Real Goodness and the Real Evil (15:10-20) | 137 |
| Faith Tested and Faith Answered (15:21-8) | 140 |
| The Faith which Won the Blessing (15:21-8) (contd) | 143 |
| The Bread of Life (15:29-39) | 145 |
| The Graciousness of Jesus (15:29-39) (contd) | 148 |
| Blind to the Signs (16:1-4) | 149 |
| The Dangerous Leaven (16:5-12) | 152 |
| The Scene of the Great Discovery (16:13-16) | 155 |
| The Inadequacy of Human Categories (16:13-16) (contd) | 158 |
| The Great Promise (16:17-19) | 162 |
| The Gates of Hell (16:17-19) (contd) | 166 |
| The Place of Peter (16:17-19) (contd) | 168 |
| The Great Rebuke (16:20-3) | 171 |
| The Challenge behind the Rebuke (16:20-3) (contd) | 174 |
| The Great Challenge (16:24-6) | 175 |
| Losing and Finding Life (16:24-6) (contd) | 177 |
| The Warning and the Promise (16:27-8) | 180 |
| The Mount of Transfiguration (17:1-8) | 182 |
| The Blessing of the Past (17:1-8) (contd) | 185 |
| The Instruction of Peter (17:1-8) (contd) | 189 |
| Teaching the Way of the Cross (17:9-13, 22-3) | 191 |
| The Essential Faith (17:14-20) | 193 |
| The Temple Tax (17:24-7) | 196 |
| How to Pay Our Debts (17:24-7) (contd) | 199 |
| Personal Relationships | 201 |
| The Mind of a Child (18:1-4) | 203 |
| Christ and the Child (18:5-7, 10) | 205 |
| The Terrible Responsibility (18:5-7, 10) (contd) | 208 |
| The Surgical Removal (18:8-9) | 211 |
| The Shepherd and the Lost Sheep (18:12-14) | 214 |
| Seeking the Stubborn (18:15-18) | 217 |
| The Power of the Presence (18:19-20) | 221 |
| How to Forgive (18:21-35) | 224 |
| Jewish Marriage and Divorce (19:1-9) | 227 |
| Jewish Grounds for Divorce (19:1-9) (contd) | 231 |
| The Answer of Jesus (19:1-9) (contd) | 233 |
| The High Ideal (19:1-9) (contd) | 236 |
| The Realization of the Ideal (19:10-12) | 239 |
| Marriage and Divorce (19:10-12) (contd) | 242 |
| Jesus' Welcome for the Children (19:13-15) | 245 |
| The Great Refusal (19:16-22) | 248 |
| The Peril of Riches (19:23-6) | 252 |
| A Wise Answer to a Mistaken Question (19:27-30) | 256 |
| The Master Seeks His Workers (20:1-16) | 258 |
| Work and Wages in the Kingdom of God (20:1-16) (contd) | 260 |
| Towards the Cross (20:17-19) | 264 |
| The False and the True Ambition (20:20-8) | 265 |
| The Mind of Jesus (20:20-8) (contd) | 268 |
| The Christian Revolution (20:20-8) (contd) | 270 |
| The Lordship of the Cross (20:20-8) (contd) | 272 |
| Love's Answer to Need's Appeal (20:29-34) | 274 |
| The Beginning of the Last Act of the Drama (21:1-11) | 276 |
| The Intention of Jesus (21:1-11) (contd) | 279 |
| The Claim of the King (21:1-11) (contd) | 282 |
| The Scene in the Temple (21:12-14) | 283 |
| The Wrath and the Love (21:12-14) (contd) | 287 |
| The Knowledge of the Simple in Heart (21:15-17) | 289 |
| The Way of the Fig Tree (21:18-22) | 291 |
| Promise without Performance (21:18-22) (contd) | 295 |
| The Dynamic of Prayer (21:18-22) (contd) | 297 |
| The Expedient Ignorance (21:23-7) | 299 |
| The Better of Two Bad Sons (21:28-32) | 301 |
| The Vineyard of the Lord (21:33-46) | 304 |
| Privilege and Responsibility (21:33-46) (contd) | 306 |
| The Symbol of the Stone (21:33-46) (contd) | 308 |
| Joy and Judgment (22:1-10) | 309 |
| The Scrutiny of the King (22:11-14) | 313 |
| Human and Divine Right (22:15-22) | 316 |
| The Living God is God of the Living (22:23-33) | 320 |
| Duty to God and Duty to Others (22:34-40) | 323 |
| New Horizons (22:41-6) | 325 |
| Scribes and Pharisees | 327 |
| Making Religion a Burden (23:1-4) | 331 |
| The Religion of Ostentation (23:5-12) | 333 |
| Shutting the Door (23:13) | 335 |
| Missionaries of Evil (23:15) | 337 |
| The Science of Evasion (23:16-22) | 340 |
| The Lost Sense of Proportion (23:23-4) | 341 |
| The Real Cleanness (23:25-6) | 344 |
| Disguised Decay (23:27-8) | 345 |
| The Taint of Murder (23:29-36) | 347 |
| The Rejection of Love's Appeal (23:37-9) | 348 |
| The Vision of Things to Come | 350 |
| The Vision of the Future (24:1-31) | 351 |
| The Interweaving of the Strands | 353 |
| The Doom of the Holy City (24:1-2) | 355 |
| The Grim Terror of the Siege (24:15-22) | 357 |
| The Day of the Lord (24:6-8, 29-31) | 359 |
| The Persecution to Come (24:9-10) | 361 |
| Threats to the Faith (24:4-5, 11-13, 23-6) | 363 |
| The Coming of the King (24:3, 14, 27-8) | 364 |
| The Coming of the King (24:32-41) | 366 |
| Ready for the Coming of the King (24:42-51) | 369 |
| The Fate of the Unprepared (25:1-13) | 371 |
| The Condemnation of the Buried Talent (25:14-30) | 375 |
| God's Standard of Judgment (25:31-46) | 378 |
| The Beginning of the Last Act of the Tragedy (26:1-5) | 381 |
| Love's Extravagance (26:6-13) | 383 |
| The Last Hours in the Life of the Traitor | 386 |
| The Traitor's Bargain (26:14-16) | 387 |
| Love's Last Appeal (26:20-5) | 388 |
| The Traitor's Kiss (26:47-50) | 390 |
| The Traitor's End (27:3-10) | 392 |
| The Last Supper | 395 |
| The Ancestral Feast (26:17-19) | 395 |
| His Body and his Blood (26:26-30) | 398 |
| The Collapse of Peter | 400 |
| The Master's Warning (26:31-5) | 400 |
| The Failure of Courage (26:57-8, 69-75) | 402 |
| The Soul's Battle in the Garden (26:36-46) | 405 |
| The Arrest in the Garden (26:50-6) | 409 |
| The Trial before the Jews (26:57, 59-68) | 411 |
| The Crime of Christ (26:57, 59-68) (contd) | 413 |
| The Man who Sentenced Jesus to Death (27:1-2, 11-26) | 415 |
| Pilate's Losing Struggle (27:1-2, 11-26) (contd) | 421 |
| The Soldiers' Mockery (27:27-31) | 423 |
| The Cross and the Shame (27:32-44) | 426 |
| The Triumph of the End (27:45-50) | 429 |
| The Blazing Revelation (27:51-6) | 432 |
| The Gift of a Tomb (27:57-61) | 434 |
| An Impossible Assignment (27:62-6) | 437 |
| The Great Discovery (28:1-10) | 438 |
| The Last Resort (28:11-15) | 440 |
| The Glory of the Final Promise (28:16-20) | 441 |
