If the best way to understand the Christian faith is to read the Gospels, the next most important books must be the ones that help us understand them - which is exactly the aim of Ryle's Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.

'The Gospel of St. John, rightly interpreted, is the best and simplest answer to those who profess to admire a vague and indistinct Christianity,' Ryle wrote, and there were as many such admirers in his day as in ours. This is the second of the three volumes covering the fourth Gospel, with his plain comment on the text and the longer notes on disputed points that make the series useful to preachers. Hardcover.