˘ 1991

WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY

OF PENNSYLVANIA

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WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY

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2006 Printing

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Scripture quotations are from the modern-language

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, 1984 Edition

The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived English (gt-E)

Made in the United States of America

Contents

1 Messages From Heaven

2 Honored Before He Was Born

3 The Preparer of the Way Is Born

4 Pregnant but Not Married

5 Jesus' Birth-Where and When?

6 The Child of Promise

7 Jesus and the Astrologers

8 Escape From a Tyrant

9 Jesus' Early Family Life

10 Trips to Jerusalem

11 John Prepares the Way

12 Jesus' Baptism

13 Learning From Jesus' Temptations

14 Jesus' First Disciples

15 Jesus' First Miracle

16 Zeal for Jehovah's Worship

17 Teaching Nicodemus

18 John Decreases, Jesus Increases

19 Teaching a Samaritan Woman

20 Second Miracle While in Cana

21 In Jesus' Hometown Synagogue

22 Four Disciples Are Called

23 More Miracles in Capernaum

24 Why Jesus Came to Earth

25 Compassion for a Leper

26 Back Home in Capernaum

27 The Calling of Matthew

28 Questioned About Fasting

29 Doing Good Works on the Sabbath

30 Answering His Accusers

31 Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

32 What Is Lawful on the Sabbath?

33 Fulfilling Isaiah's Prophecy

34 Choosing His Apostles

35 The Most Famous Sermon Ever Given

36 An Army Officer's Great Faith

37 Jesus Dispels a Widow's Grief

38 Did John Lack Faith?

39 The Proud and the Lowly

40 A Lesson in Mercy

41 A Center of Controversy

42 Jesus Rebukes the Pharisees

43 Teaching With illustrations

44 Silencing a Terrifying Storm

45 An Unlikely Disciple

46 She Touched His Garment

47 Tears Thrned to Great Ecstasy

48 LeavingJairus' Home and Revisiting Nazareth

49 Another Preaching Tour of Galilee

50 Preparation to Face Persecution

51 Murder During a Birthday Party

52 Jesus Miraculously Feeds Thousands

53 A Desired Superhuman Ruler

54 "True Bread From Heaven"

55 Many Disciples Quit Following Jesus

56 What Defiles a Man?

57 Compassion for the Aftlicted

58 The Loaves and the Leaven

59 Who Really Is Jesus?

60 A Preview of Christ's Kingdom Glory

61 Possessed Boy Healed

62 A Lesson in Humility

63 Further Corrective Counsel

64 A Lesson in Forgiveness

65 A Secret Trip to Jerusalem

66 At the Festival of Tabernacles

67 They Fail to Arrest Him

68 Further Teaching on the Seventh Day

69 The Question of Fatherhood

70 Healing a Man Born Blind

71 Pharisees' Willful Unbelief

72 Jesus Sends Out the 70

73 A Neighborly Samaritan

74 Counsel to Martha, and Instruction on Prayer

75 The Source of Happiness

76 Dining With a Pharisee

77 The Question of Inheritance

78 Keep Ready!

79 A Nation Lost, but Not All

80 The Sheepfolds and the Shepherd

81 Further Attempts to Kill Jesus

82 Jesus Again Heads for Jerusalem

83 Entertained by a Pharisee

84 The Responsibility of Discipleship

85 Searching for the Lost

86 The Story of a Lost Son

87 Provide for the Future With Practical Wisdom

88 The Rich Man and Lazarus

89 A Mission of Mercy Into Judea

90 The Resurrection Hope

91 When Lazarus Is Resurrected

92 Ten Lepers Healed During Jesus' Final Trip to Jerusalem

93 When the Son of Man Is Revealed

94 The Need for Prayer and for Humility

95 Lessons on Divorce and on Love for Children

96 Jesus and a Rich Young Ruler

97 Workers in the Vineyard

98 The Disciples Argue as Jesus' Death Nears

99 Jesus Teaches at Jericho

100 The Illustration of the Minas

101 At Bethany, in the House of Simon

102 Christ's Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

103 Visiting the Temple Again

104 God's Voice Heard a Third Time

105 Beginning of a Crucial Day

106 Exposed by Vineyard Illustrations

107 Illustration of the Marriage Feast

108 They Fail to Entrap Jesus

109 Jesus Denounces His Opposers

110 Ministry at the Temple Completed

111 Sign of the Last Days

112 Jesus' Final Passover Is At Hand

113 Humility at the Last Passover

114 The Memorial Supper

115 An Argument Erupts

116 Preparing the Apostles for His Departure

117 Agony in the Garden

118 Betrayal and Arrest

119 Taken to Annas, Then to Caiaphas

120 Denials in the Courtyard

121 Before the Sanhedrin, Then to Pilate

122 From Pilate to Herod and Back Again

123 "Look! The Man!"

124 Handed Over and Led Away

125 Agony on the Stake

126 "Certainly This Was God's Son"

127 Buried Friday-An Empty Tomb Sunday

128 Jesus Is Alive!

129 Further Appearances

130 At the Sea of Galilee

131 Final Appearances, and Pentecost 33 C.E.

132 At God's Right Hand

133 Jesus Finishes All God Asks

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