Sunday School- Bible Facts

Do you know that the Jews didn’t include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible? The factoids below relate to the version of the Bible used by Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament all altogether contains 1189 chapters (929 of which are in the Old Testament), 31173 verses.

The Old Testament contains 592439 words (2728100 letters) while the New Testament contains 181253 words (838380 letters). Among the 27 books of the New Testament, 14 were written by St. Paul.  The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek. The Bible is the bestseller of all times selling more than 50 copies every minute. The Bible is also the most shoplifted book in the world, imagine that people stealing bible.

According to the Concordance which is a compilation of the words and names in the Bible, it was discovered that “Cats” are not mentioned at all while the word “Christians” appeared only 3 times (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16), while the word “grandmother” and “eternity” appeared once each.

The Bible records seven suicides and seven different Jeremiahs - but not a single “trinity”. The books of Esther and the Song of Solomon do not contain the word "God". The Jewish codifiers of the Bible almost left them out (i.e., almost declared them apocryphal).

Amen is the word that seals the Bible.

Happy Sunday!!!!!