Thomas Jefferson's Human Jesus

Edited by Thomas Jefferson

1968

The narrative President Jefferson extracted from the four Gospels for his private use, showing Jesus as a philosopher and human being. "Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth into life, and few there be that find it....A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things." Selected by Jefferson from the very words only of Jesus. He called it "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals...ever offered to man."