Two thousand years ago He was born in an obscure village. He lived in poverty and was reared in obscurity. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.
He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He gathered a little group of friends about Him and taught them His way of life. 
He was only 33 when the public turned against Him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying,His executioners gambled for His clothing,the only property He had on earth. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave. 
Twenty centuries have come and gone,and today He is the central figure of the human race. When we try to sum up His influence, all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.

（This essay was adapted from one of Dr. James Allan Francis’sermon, 1926; rewritten by someone.）

　　二千多年前，他生於一個寂寂無名的村莊。他在貧窮中生活，在卑微中長大。他在一木匠店工作直到卅歲。其後有三年日子，他是一位巡迴傳道者。 

　　他不曾擁有房子，也從未寫過一本書，更從未有過自己的辦公室，且不曾結婚有自己的家庭。他沒上過大學，沒踏足過大城市，也從未離開過出生地超過兩百哩。他只是聚集一小群朋友，把他的生活方式教導他們……。 

　　當大眾都公然反對他時，他才卅三歲。他的朋友都逃跑了。其中一個不認他。另一個把他交給仇敵。他經歷了遭人嘲弄的審判，被釘在兩個強盜之間的十字架上。在他快要死時，執行死刑的兵丁拈鬮分他的衣服──他在地上唯一的財物。當他死時，他被埋葬在一個借來的墓穴。 

　　廿個世紀來了又走了，而他至今仍是人類的焦點。當我們要總結他對人類的影響時，我們只能說：若將所有曾作過戰的軍隊、所有曾興建過的海軍、所有曾召開過的議會、所有曾統治過的君王，都集合起來，我們會發現，這些偉大人物對這個世界的影響，特別是對人類生命的影響力，都不及這孤獨的生命來得巨大。 

（翻譯及整理：馮文娜）