Una vida perfecta: La historia completa del Señor Jesús

by John F. MacArthur Jr.

En este libro podrá leer las mejores noticias que ha recibido el mundo sobre la vida más importante de toda la historia —Jesucristo—.  En Una vida perfecta, el Dr. John MacArthur comparte la historia completa del Cristo eterno desde el Génesis hasta el Apocalipsis.  Con Mateo como texto central, el Dr. MacArthur conjuga los evangelios y otras referencias bíblicas sobre Jesús en una sola historia que le ayudará a entender mejor las Escrituras y a crecer firme en la fe.  Ningún otro conjunto de evangelios incluye tantas notas de estudio para ayudarle a develar el significado de cada versículo.






Explicaciones versículo a versículo de uno de los más importantes maestros y pastores de nuestro tiempo.
Cada versículo está ligado a Cristo desde el Génesis hasta el Apocalipsis.
Unión de los evangelios, testigo de la indefectibilidad de las Escrituras.
Versión Reina Valera 1960


Read the best news the world has ever been given about the most significant life in all history—Jesus Christ. In Una vida perfecta, Dr. John MacArthur shares with us the complete story of the Eternal Christ from Genesis to Revelation. Using Matthew as the base text, Dr. MacArthur blends the gospels and other biblical material about Jesus into one continuous story that will help you better understand Scripture and grow stronger in your faith. No other harmony of the Gospels includes such extensive study notes to help you unpack the meaning of each verse.

Features include:


Verse-by-verse explanations from one of the most important pastor-teachers of our time
Every verse connected to Christ from Genesis to Revelation
A harmony of the Gospels that witnesses to the inerrancy of Scripture
New King James translation

Genres: Christian, Theology, Nonfiction, Christianity, Christian Living, Religion, Faith

528 pages, Hardcover

First published February 19, 2013

About the author

John F. MacArthur, Jr. was a United States Calvinistic evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You and as the editor of the Gold Medallion Book Award-winning MacArthur Study Bible. MacArthur was a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California beginning in 1969, as well as President of The Master’s College (and the related Master’s Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.

Reviews

[Rod Horncastle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every Christian should be forced to read this book. (In a loving way of course: with a hot chocolate and bowl of popcorn.)

Simply, MacArthur took all of the bits in the Bible that refer to Jesus and made one story out of them. Couldn't have done it better myself. Actually i would still be trying to come up with a cool cover like he did.

Many people may not know that Jesus is featured throughout the entire Bible; Old and New Testament. From prophecies to appearances to the meaning of all existence. It took me years to properly understand this. Jesus is in every book of the Bible - but it takes some study and serious thinking to see how this plays out. Thankfully John has helped us along with this. His commentaries are incredibly effective and appear on every page.

The Bible is of course our ultimate source on Jesus. But what John MacArthur has helped us do is carefully focus on the specifics of Jesus' story.

[David J. Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

One Perfect Life is a Bible. It is is a sort of combination of a harmony of the gospels and a chronological Bible.

Unlike a chronological Bible, it is just focused on Christ. Matthew, Mark. Luke and John are there, plus primary Old Testament passages that point us to the Lord Jesus (creation, fall, messianic prophecies, etc) and explanations of the significance of those events from the Epistles.

Unlike a harmony of the gospels, it is not a a parallel reading, but a narrative reading that combines elements of several books at once. The book is divided up into chapters (215 total). At the beginning of each chapter, there is a title and list of Scripture references involved.

This is a wonderful resource, and the fruit of decades of faithful expositional ministry. Good for reference or devotion.

[Sandi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book out loud to my three boys for homeschool (ages 11, 9, and 7). We were to read a selection of the Gospels that was presently chronologically and in a harmony of the gospel fashion. I remembered that I had this book so I switched to using this book instead. It was wonderful!

I asked the boys for a rating on the book, as they like to rate books we read aloud. But they said, "oh no mom, that's the Bible we can't rate that!"

So I am rating it instead. My rating is for the layout of the book (and not the content). The harmony of the gospels here was presented in one narrative flow, like a story. I liked how the sections were divided into "scenes" and were short, like 5-10 minutes. This worked well to make it easy to read it daily together on scene at a time and finish within the year's end.

[Donovan Hazen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great assurance and a book written by a literal historical hermeneutic supporter, that in fact i believe is a great book to show redemptive historical hermeneutic. Overall Great book using scripture to show the perfect messiah Jesus Christ!!

[Anne (In Search of Wonder) · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite parts were the first and last sections. The weaving of scripture in those passages gave me chills in some places. The actual weaving of the gospels was pretty good, too, although I felt he was maybe trying too hard to make some of the puzzle pieces fit.

[Jonathan Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this. It is a misnomer in that it has John MacArthur's name on it. Basically this is a blending of all the Gospels together into one flowing document (as well as some of Paul's stuff in the final chapters). And I really enjoyed this.

I understand that we want to be sure we understand what each Gospel author is writing (Matthew for the Jews, Luke for an orderly chronological account, etc), but having this full picture of the story of Jesus just feels right. I especially liked it as I taught through Matthew, having the other accounts accessible and also seeing where Mark or Luke takes Jesus in between the account in Matthew was really great for understanding it all better. I also have a version of this that follow's Paul's life, that I may read in the near future. Well worth your time.

FYI: I used this as a devotional reading and was blessed by it. I encourage that.

[Willow · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful composite harmony of the Gospels, this uses the words of Scripture to weave a seamless narrative of the life of the Lord Jesus. Prophetic texts from the Old Testament are included, as well as portions of New Testament books all the way to Revelation. The structure of the book makes it convenient to savor in short daily segments, and notes are provided below each text much like in the MacArthur Study Bible.

One could easily spend years reading this in varying degrees of depth: Scripture text alone, text with notes, or text with notes and look up every Scripture reference mentioned in the notes.

[Lenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author does an excellent job in this book of explaining, in simpler concepts, stories and allegorical lessons in Scripture. Anyone who desires to learn more about Jesus’ life and find a deeper understanding of His life’s significance, this is the book to read.

[Maggie Burton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the gospels chronologically, more like a narrative. Cool resource!

[Spencer Patterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful synopsis of the gospels, with some other scripture bookending. Plenty of commentary as well. I enjoyed reading this alongside The Chosen and Bema Discipleship’s commentary on The Chosen.

[Rachel Menke · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a harmony of all that the Bible has to say about Jesus. Since Jesus primarily appears in the four Gospels the majority of the book walks the reader through the earthly life of Christ in chronological order by reading the events of his earthly ministry in a unified text (taking all the texts on that event from all the Gospels and combining them together in a cohesive unit).
However, as helpful as those sections were, the real win on this book for me were the harmonies of the non-gospel texts on Jesus’ importance beyond his earthly life: His role in creation, and all the promises of His coming and what He will do, as well as summarizing of the other NT texts on the value of Christ’s death, Resurrection, and return! But my very favorite was the last section combining the texts that our salvation and our hope is found in Christ alone! It’s amazingly beautiful and can’t help but encourage worship!
The text of this book is only Scripture (along with some helpful footnotes by the author) and it would be great supplemental reading to your daily Bible reading (this is how I used it). Whether you just want to know more about Jesus, develop your Christology, better understand the chronology of Christ’s life, or grow in your love for Jesus this is a wonderful and helpful resource that I will be turning back to again and again!

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

The subtitle of One Perfect Life is, "The Complete Story of the Lord Jesus." And complete it is, compiling Scriptures from Genesis through Revelation in the New King James translation. There are eleven parts of the story divided into 215 readings. Each reading has a handful of MacArthur's study notes. So for those wanting to learn more, to understand more of the text, it's there.

The focus of the entire book is, of course, on Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and on the gospel. The book not only reveals who Christ is, it reveals who we are--with or without Christ. The very last reading is a great invitation to come to Christ and be saved.

One Perfect Life is a powerful, compelling read.

[Nate Robertson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent harmonious telling of the four gospels, presenting a chronological understanding of the life of Christ. Each text is taken from the NKJV, and is laid out using the fullest or most complete sentence structure to portray what Jesus had accomplished during his ministry. Also compelling is the the introduction and epilogue that uses the Old and New Testament writings to indicate the deity of Christ before His birth and a gospel statement after His death, resurrection, and ascension.

Mind you, majority of the book is Scripture with MacArthur's commentary included to provide additional reading and guidance for understanding and interpretation. Recommended for every book shelf.

[Blue Morse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every Old and New Testament reference to Christ compiled into a seamless chronological and narrative account. A must own for every believer and must read every Easter!

[Ashley Chial · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can’t recommend this book enough. It’s purely scripture that he has put in chronological order.

[Charlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! This was completely different from any other book I've read by the author. This is the story of Christ, not in a narrative style with scripture verses for support. It takes all 4 Gospels and places the scripture in chronological order using JUST scripture. He includes the prophecies of Christ in the Old Testament. There are 11 sections each with sub chapters and at the end of each section JM has his study notes for all chapters in that section. After all 11 sections there is the complete New Testament in the New King James Version with references back to the earlier sections. While a great book, it is a much slower read than his other books, but that should be expected as scripture itself deserves and requires a good slow read!

[Amy Meyers · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wanted to read a Harmony of the Gospels, but the parallel reading was distracting. This ones weaves them all into one narrative chronologically, in a modern translation, with MacArthur notes, and VERY occasionally adds other material from Isaiah or epistles at times. Very well done. This is excellent.

I didn't read all of MacArthur's notes, but many. Sometimes he asserts something that I think he can't be positive on.

[Karissa Stoner · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, because it is a commentary, is a bit harder to read and follow. However, the author so clearly opens the eyes of readers to the cultural, literary, and historical context of the Gospels. This is a great book to study alongside personal devotions in the gospels, for preparation to teach on this, and to ultimately learn for about the Life of Christ.

[Kent Purrington · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really helps the study of the gospels

For years I have been told that there are contradictions in the bible. For the gospels it eliminates them.

This work really eliminates a lot of work for the student, and expands ways of understanding the story better.

I especially enjoy this application in Amazon fire (ebook reader), when reading in bed.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. MacArthur has done a masterful job of taking every New Testament verse that applies to Jesus, arranging them by topic, and creating a cohesive account of His birth, life, death, resurrection, ascension, second coming, and eventual eternal rule.

Every Christian should at least read this book, and have a copy in their personal library, if possible.

[Jeff Diederiks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unique, Fresh View of The Gospels

The first 20% of this book shows the Gospel accounts tremendously blended together in chronological order. All the words are scripture minus very, very few connecting words. The value comes from the fresh view of books I've read many times.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you do not want to read the Bible cover to cover, this book takes what is most important from the Bible And puts in bite size pieces so that you learn who Jesus is, what He did, and why we need Him in our lives.

[Joel Gingerich · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. It combines all four gospels to give a chronological progression of the life of Christ. Very interesting. Having the different books mixed together takes a little to get used to, but it is quite helpful.

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

MacArthur Study Bible Repackaged

This is the same as the MacArthur Study Bible. The only difference is that each section is divided for reflection and mediation. I think the study Bible is more fluid

[JC McKenzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

La verdad es que quedé un tanto decepcionado, el autor se la pasa transcribiendo pasajes bíblicos en lugar de desarrollar algún discurso o argumento en cuanto a la vida del Señor Jesús. Para eso mejor leo los evangelios. No lo recomiendo mucho la verdad-

[Anthony D’Apolito III · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've always wanted to read the Scriptures in a chronological order of Jesus Christ's earthly ministry.

With this book, John MacArthur did exactly that - while also creating footnotes to clarify the sentences.

I'm grateful for having such a detailed, dense book of this matter.

[Jason Reed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have not finished fully, but plan to over time. Rich, deep, and exhaustive teaching.

[Adrian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Immediately re-reading and much recommended!

[Anna Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic compilation of the gospels

[Suzanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the seamless gospels and the historical commentation.