Excerpt from Suggestive Illustrations on the Gospel of John: Illustrations From All Sources, Picturesque Greek Words, Library References to Further Illustrations, References to Celebrated Pictures For twenty-five years I have prepared an annual volume of Select Notes on the International sunday-school lessons. But as Paul died daily, so I die yearly and it has been the dream and hope of my later life to fill out the omitted chapters and verses, improve and revise the past work up to date, and make a permanent commentary on the New Testament. The plan is to bring the latest, the most scholarly and the best light upon the Bible, in a condensed and practical form, into the pulpit, the Sunday-school and the home. I have been encouraged to hope that this work would not be useless from the fact that the total sale of the select notes approaches a million copies. On consulting, however, with booksellers and publishers, the Opinion was almost unanimous that such a commentary must not be too large. This necessitates the leaving out of the illustrations, which many testify to as especially helpful in my previous volumes. It was therefore decided to publish the illustrations in separate volumes, of which this volume is the third one issued. It is thus possible to furnish a greatly increased number of illustrations, and literary references, which have been selected with care from a large and growing accumulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.