In a subject such as this, certain things have necessarily to be taken for granted. The author of the First Gospel is regarded as unknown; accordingly, he is spoken of as the First Evangelist or as St. “Matthew”. The writer of the Fourth Gospel is also referred to as the Fourth Evangelist, the question of authorship being left open. St. Mark and St. Luke, the companions of St. Paul, are assumed to be the authors of the Second and Third Gospels respectively; St. Luke is also believed to be the author of the Acts. The reader who does not accept these views may mentally substitute such phrases as the Second and Third Evangelists wherever St. Mark and St. Luke are mentioned. Such abbreviations as Mt., Mk., Lk., Jn. are always meant to refer to the Gospels, not to their authors. It only remains for the writer to express his deep sense of gratitude to those to whose knowledge and help he is debtor. How much he owes to earlier workers in the field will be sufficiently evident. It has proved by no means an easy task to weigh and to differentiate between opposing views, and the writer is not unmindful of his temerity, in certain places, in dissenting from opinions supported by justly honoured names. He desires particularly to speak of the generous encouragement he received in his task from the late Dr. Sanday. Dr. Sanday had made a provisional promise to write a brief introduction to the present work. His lamented death has prevented the carrying out of this promise, and for the lack of such an introduction the book is so much the poorer. The writer further wishes to express his gratitude to his former tutor, the Rev. Prof. A. S. Geden, M.A., D.D., and to the Rev. J. Walthew Simister, for their kindness in reading the typescript, and in suggesting improvements, and also to the Rev. Prof. F. Bertram Clogg, M.A., for his valued assistance in the reading of the proof‐sheets. Vincent Taylor. BATH, _September, 1920_. ABBREVIATIONS DCG. Hastings’s _Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels_ (1906‐8). EB. _Encyclopaedia Biblica_ (1899‐1903). Evan. Da‐Meph. F. C. Burkitt’s _Evangelion Da‐Mepharreshe_ (1904). GHD. V. H. Stanton’s _The Gospels as Historical Documents_, Parts I and II (1903‐9). GHT. F. C. Burkitt’s _The Gospel History and its Transmission_ (1906). Gr. ii. J. H. Moulton’s _Grammar of New Testament Greek_, Vol. II (1919). HDB. Hastings’s _Dictionary of the Bible_ (1898‐1904). HJ. _The Hibbert Journal._ HS. _Horae Synopticae_, Sir John C. Hawkins (2nd ed., 1909). ICC. _The International Critical Commentary._ INT. Jülicher’s _Introduction to the New Testament_, Eng. Tr. (1904); J. Moffatt’s _An Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament_ (3rd ed., 1918). Proleg. Vol. I of J. H. Moulton’s _Grammar of New Testament Greek_ (3rd ed., 1908).