The Bible

• 66 books written over a period of ~1500 Years• Around 40 ‘writers’

• Old Testament: 39 books• (Written in Hebrew and Aramaic)

• New Testament: 27 books• (Written in Greek)

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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Other writings referred to

Reference Title

Numbers 21v14 Book of the wars of the LORD

2 Samuel 1v18 Book of Jasher

1 Chronicles 29v29 Book of Nathan the prophet

1 Chronicles 29v29 Book of Gad the seer

2 Chronicles 9v29 Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite

2 Chronicles 12v15 Book of Shemaiah the prophet

2 Chronicles 12v15 Book of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies

2 Chronicles 20v34 Book of Jehu the son of Hanani

The Apocrypha

The Apocrypha

• Amos 8v11-12 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.”

The Apocrypha

• Amos 8v11-12 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.”

The Apocrypha

• Amos 8v11-12 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.”

• “The New Testament writers not only never quote the apocryphal books with the authority of Scripture, but they never make any direct reference or allusion to anything which these books relate”

The Apocrypha

• Amos 8v11-12 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.”

• “The New Testament writers not only never quote the apocryphal books with the authority of Scripture, but they never make any direct reference or allusion to anything which these books relate”

“Speaker's Commentary” (edited by Henry Wace), 1888, p. 40 - General Introduction to the Apocrypha

New Testament Manuscripts

“The Case for Christ” (ch. 3), Lee Strobel (quoting Biblical scholar Bruce Metzger)

Author Title Manuscripts Earliest Copy

Tacitus Annals of Imperial Rome 1 734

Josephus The Jewish War 11 300

Herodotus History of Persian War 8 1500

Julius Caesar Gallic War (Commentary) 9 850

Homer Iliad 650 1000

New Testament Manuscripts

Author Title Manuscripts Earliest Copy

Tacitus Annals of Imperial Rome 1 734

Josephus The Jewish War 9 (1) 900 (300)

Herodotus History of Persian War 8 1500

Julius Caesar Gallic War (Commentary) 9 850

Homer Iliad 650 1000

God New Testament 25000 30

“The Case for Christ” (ch. 3), Lee Strobel (quoting Biblical scholar Bruce Metzger)

Author Title Manuscripts Earliest Copy

Tacitus Annals of Imperial Rome 1 734

Josephus The Jewish War 11 300

Herodotus History of Persian War 8 1500

Julius Caesar Gallic War (Commentary) 9 850

Homer Iliad 650 1000

Quotations from Old & New

Quotations from Old & New

• 1 Timothy 5v18 “For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.”

Quotations from Old & New

• 1 Timothy 5v18 “For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.”

Quotations from Old & New

• 1 Timothy 5v18 “For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.”

• Deuterononomy 25v4 “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”

Quotations from Old & New

• 1 Timothy 5v18 “For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.”

• Deuterononomy 25v4 “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”

Quotations from Old & New

• 1 Timothy 5v18 “For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.”

• Deuterononomy 25v4 “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”

• Luke 10v7 “And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.”

Trying the spirits

Trying the spirits

• 2 Thessalonians 2v1-3 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means...”

Trying the spirits

• 2 Thessalonians 2v1-3 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means...”

Trying the spirits

• 2 Thessalonians 2v1-3 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means...”

• 1 Corinthians 12v10 “...To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues”

Trying the spirits

• 2 Thessalonians 2v1-3 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means...”

• 1 Corinthians 12v10 “...To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues”

Trying the spirits

• 2 Thessalonians 2v1-3 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means...”

• 1 Corinthians 12v10 “...To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues”

• 1 John 4v1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”