This book takes the reader into the ordinary civil society of Palestine during Christ's time. It makes him mingle with the men and women of that period, see them in their homes and families, learn their habits and manners, and follow them in their ordinary life. The work is that of a painstaking scholar, yet is presented in popular, readable style, and will make the words and events of the New Testament more significant, more colorful and more deeply spiritual to every reader.