If you have ever read "Let not your heart be troubled" and wanted to believe it, this book is for you. For more than a century, J.C. Ryle's Expository Thoughts has helped ordinary Christians understand the deepest Gospel in the Bible. Now his classic commentary on John chapters 13 through 21, from the upper room to the empty tomb, is finally readable again, restored from damaged nineteenth-century printings and rendered in clear modern English, with the King James text Ryle wrote on preserved untouched.
In this book you will:
Sit in the upper room with the disciples and hear what Jesus said about the Comforter, the vine and the branches, and the peace He leaves behind
Listen to Christ pray for you in the seventeenth chapter, the longest prayer of Jesus recorded in the Bible, verse by verse
Answer the hard questions about the cross and the resurrection that stump small groups and skeptical friends: what "It is finished" accomplished, what Thomas's doubt teaches, and why Peter was asked three times, "Lovest thou me?"
Every passage follows the same trusted shape, so you always know where you are and what comes next: the King James text, then a short, warm exposition you can read in minutes, then full verse-by-verse notes that untie every knot. The expositions feed family worship and private devotion. The notes carry the depth, two-thirds of Ryle's labor, drawing on some seventy commentators. A matching workbook, The Gospel of John: A 21-Week Study Workbook, with its Family Fifteen reading plan, stands ready for groups and families. Weeks thirteen through twenty-one of the workbook follow this volume, and the cross and the empty tomb each get a session of their own.
What makes this edition different:
Restored from two independent printings. No clean copy of Ryle's John survives in digital form. A New York and London setting were read against each other.
A lost paragraph returned. The opening of Ryle's exposition on the washing of the disciples' feet had been carried into the notes before it.
The King James text, word for word. Ryle's notes turn on the exact words of that translation. Here they stay anchored.
Notes you can actually read. Other editions shrink Ryle's seven hundred notes to a size that defeats the reader. Here each begins on its own line, in full-size type.
Every Scripture reference checked against the verse it quotes, printer's errors corrected, and in modern form, John 14:6 rather than "Joh. xiv. 6."
Ryle's voice, untouched. Only Victorian grammar that would mislead you today has been updated. His sentences, rhythm, and convictions stand as he wrote them.
Ryle, an Eton and Oxford man bound for Parliament, lost his family's banking fortune, entered the ministry, and spent thirty-eight years as a country pastor before becoming the first Bishop of Liverpool. Spurgeon called him "the best man in the Church of England." His books have never gone out of print. A new foreword explains how this edition was made, and a documented biography introduces the man.
Whether you are a believer who needs the comfort of the upper room, a small-group leader preparing to teach, or a pastor who wants Ryle in a clean, usable edition, this volume gives you a clear path through John 13 to 21.
Get your copy now and read John with confidence.
