With My Own Eyes
Unabridged

One of the blessings of having four Gospels instead of one is that each Evangelist gives us a unique perspective on the same story. Where Mark is brief, Luke uses more ink. Where Matthew, Mark, and Luke follow a similar outline of narrative events, John blazes his own path, incorporating longer dial......more

With many books like this, the author goes too far in adding narrative to the story that is way too imaginative. Giertz doesn't do that but sticks very closely to the actually Gospels and only adds lots of descriptive details and significantly adds the thought of people throughout the story. It help......more

I'm going to give 5 stars to everything Giertz has written, but this book is a really lovely retelling of the narrative of the Gospels. It is good to have this newer translation in print, as copies of the older translation are getting harder to find. I enjoyed my read.......more

This is one of the richest commentaries on the Gospels, only it is presented in a novel like form. This is staying on my exegetical shelf.......more

What an incredibly written book!! Part historical and geographical detail, part devotional, Giertz’s faithful, thoughtful retelling of the gospel narrative brings vivid color to the stories of Jesus’ earthly ministry. With roughly 40 short stories, each told from varying perspectives, this would mak......more