Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Summary.--References and abbreviations.--Introduction.--book I. The baptism.--book II. Bath kol; or, Voices from heaven in Jewish tradition.--book III. Voices from heaven in synoptic tradition.--book IV. The silence of John.--book V. The voice from heaven an answer to prayer.--Appendix I. Narratives of the baptism.--Appendix II. On the origin of the tradition "Suffer it to be so now".--Appendix III. The transfiguration and the agony: canonical and non-canonical accounts.--Appendix IV. Bath kol in Targums and Talmuds.--Appendix V. ("The second epistle of St. Peter") contrasted with ("The Gospel of St. John".)--Appendix VI. The promise of Eusebius