ILU William Temple, you sarcastic so and so...

[tree_and_leaf]

"It was held [by nineteenth century critics] that the simple preacher of love towards God and man could be discerned behind the Marcan, Lucan and Matthaean narratives. (Why anyone should have troubled to crucify the Christ of Liberal Protestantism has always been a mystery)."

William Temple, Readings in St. John's Gospel (1945: xxiv).