Bible Commentaries

Joseph Beet's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament

New Testament

Joseph Agar Beet was an English Wesleyan, born at Sheffield on Sept. 27, 1840.

He attended Wesley College, Sheffield (1851-56), and took up mining engineering, but afterward studied theology at the Wesleyan College, Richmond (1862-64). He was pastor 1864-85 and professor of systematic theology in Wesleyan College, Richmond, 1885-1905.

He was also a member of the faculty of theology in the University of London 1901-05. He delivered the Fernley Lecture on The Credentials of the Gospels in 1889, and lectured in America in 1896.