{"id":634,"date":"2011-09-02T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=634"},"modified":"2011-09-02T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T13:28:32","slug":"facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=634","title":{"rendered":"Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bible is divided into two parts.\u00a0 The first part is the Old Testament; sometimes called the old covenant.\u00a0 The second part is the New Testament; sometimes called the new covenant.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Old Testament is a contract between God and Abraham; including all of his descendants.\u00a0 This covenant was extended to all of mankind if they so choose.\u00a0 The people who did not choose to be a part of the contract we referred to as Gentiles.\u00a0 The people that took part in this covenant are called, the children of Israel. \u00a0This covenant is often referred to as The Law because there were strict rules and rituals that had to be performed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The New Testament is a covenant between God and all of mankind.\u00a0 This covenant was based on better promises that the Old Testament.\u00a0 This covenant did not abolish the Old Testament; it merely fulfilled the Old Testament\u2019s ceremonies and rituals.\u00a0 This covenant is called Grace because mankind was given a grace period; concerning the ordinances of the Law.\u00a0 This grace period is in effect until the return of Jesus or the day you die; which ever comes first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Both the Old and the New Testament is divided into books. \u00a0The books are divided into Chapters and the chapters are further divided into verses.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Total of 66 books<\/span><\/p>\n

The Old Testament has 39 books<\/span><\/p>\n

The New Testament has 27 books<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a total of 1189 chapters in the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

The Old Testament has 929 chapters<\/span><\/p>\n

The New Testament has 260 chapters<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a total of 31102 verses in the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

The Old Testament has 23145 verses<\/span><\/p>\n

The New Testament has 7957 verses<\/span><\/p>\n

The book of Psalms has the most chapters (150)<\/span><\/p>\n

Obadiah, Philemon, 2 John, 3 John and Jude consists of only one chapter<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 119 is the longest Chapter in the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalms 117 is the shortest chapter in the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Esther 8:9 is the longest verse in the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

John 11:35 is the shortest verse in the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

The chapter with the most verses is Numbers chapter 7 (89)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chapter with the fewest verses is Psalms 117 (2)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bible is divided into two parts.\u00a0 The first part is the Old Testament; sometimes called the old covenant.\u00a0 The second part is the New Testament; sometimes called the new covenant.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Old Testament is a contract between God and Abraham; including all of his descendants.\u00a0 This covenant was extended to all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-634","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}