Sergei Aleksandrovich Zhebelev (1867–1941) – professor at Leningrad University, classical philologist, specialist in archeology, ancient history and epigraphy, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1927). His book addresses the issue of studying the gospels, both canonical and apocryphal. The content and form of the gospels are important, as are the points of view from which they are viewed, including historical and literary ones; the question of authorship and sources is also raised. The Gospels are compared and contrasted, and their characteristics and features are highlighted. Reproduced in the original author’s spelling of the 1919 edition (Petrograd: Lights, 1919. – 123 pp.).