Jesus
The Son of Man
His words and His deeds
as told and recorded
by those who knew Him
mcmxxviii
New York, Alfred A. Knopf
Jesus, the Son of Man is a collection of short stories which seek to portray Jesus from the point of view of seventy seven people around him, Greeks and Romans, Jews and Persians, both friend and foe. Some are based on actual characters from the New Testament, some are created by Gibran.
First published in 1928, by Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
The chapters
- James the son of Zebedee On the kingdoms of the world
- Anna the mother of Mary On the birth of Jesus
- Assaph called the Orator of Tyre On the speech of Jesus
- Mary Magdalen On meeting Jesus for the first time
- Philemon a Greek Apothecary On Jesus the master physician
- Simon who was called Peter When he and his brother were called
- Caiaphas The High Priest
- Joanna the wife of Herod's steward On children
- Rafca The Bride of Cana
- A Persian Philosopher in Damascus Of ancient Gods and new
- David one of his followers Jesus the practical
- Luke On hypocrites
- Matthew The sermon on the mount
- John the son of Zebedee On the various apellations of Jesus
- A young priest of Capernaum Of Jesus the magician
- A rich levi near the Nazarene Jesus the carpenter
- A shepherd in South Lebanon A parable
- John the Baptist He speaks in prison to one of His disciples
- Joseph of Arimathea On the primal aims of Jesus
- Nathaniel Jesus was not meek
- Saba of Antioch On Saul of Tarsus
- Salome to a woman friend A desire unfulfilled
- Rachael a woman disciple On Jesus the vision and the man
- Cleopas of Bethroune On the law and the prophets
- Naaman of the Gadarenes On the death of Stephen
- Thomas On the forefathers of his doubts
- Elmadam the logician Jesus the outcast
- One of the Mary's On His sadness and His smile
- Rumanous a Greek poet Jesus the poet
- Levi a disciple On Those who would confound Jesus
- A widow in Galilee Jesus the cruel
- Judas the cousin of Jesus On the death of John the Baptist
- The man from the desert On the money-changers
- Peter On the morrow of His followers
- Melachi of Babylon, an astronomer The miracles of Jesus
- A philosopher On wonder and beauty
- Uriah, an old man of Nazareth He was a stranger in our midst
- Nicodemus the poet On fools and jugglers
- Joseph of Arimathea The two streams in Jesus' heart
- Georgus of Beirut On strangers
- Mary Magdalen His mouth was like the heart of a pomegranate
- Jotham of Nazareth to a Roman On living and being
- Ephraim of Jericho The other wedding-feast
- Barca, a merchant of Tyre On buying and selling
- Phumiah, the high Priestess of Sidon An invocation
- Benjamin the scribe Let the dead bury their dead
- Zacchaeus On the fate of Jesus
- Jonathan Among the water-lilies
- Hannah of Bethsaida She speaks of her father's sister
- Manasseh On the speech and gesture of Jesus
- Jephtha of Caesarea A man weary of Jesus
- John the beloved disciple On Jesus the Word
- Mannus the Pompeiian, to a Greek On the Semitic Deity
- Pontius Pilatus Of Eastern Rites and Cults
- Bartholomew in Ephesus On slaves and outcasts
- Matthew On Jesus by a prison wall
- Andrew On prostitutes
- A rich man On possessions
- John at Patmos Jesus the gracious
- Peter On the neighbor
- A cobbler in Jerusalem A neutral
- Suzannah of Nazareth Of the youth and manhood of Jesus
- Joseph surnamed Justus Jesus the wayfarer
- Philip And when He died all Mankind died
- Birbarah of Yammouni On Jesus the impatient
- Pilate's wife to a Roman lady
- A man outside of Jerusalem Of Judas
- Sarkis an old Greek shepherd Jesus and Pan
- Annas the high priest On Jesus the rabble
- A woman, one of Mary's neighbors A lamentation
- Ahaz the portly The keeper of the inn
- Barabbas The last words of Jesus
- Claudius a Roman sentinel Jesus the stoic
- James the brother of the Lord The last supper
- Simon the Cyrene He who carried the cross
- Cyborea The mother of Judas
- The woman in Byblos A lamentation
- Mary Magdalen, thirty years later On the resurrection of the spirit
- A man from Lebanon Nineteen centuries afterward
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