- The word bible comes from a Greek word biblia which means, books. The Holy Bible is made up of 66 books.
- In 1456, in Mainz, Germany, Johann Gutenberg printed the first Bible using movable It was a beautiful, artistic folio-size of the Latin Vulgate.
- The Bible is actually made up of 773,692 words and would take the average person 70 hours to read.
- The Bible Society of the United Kingdom calculates that the number of Bibles printed between 1816 and 1975 was 2,458,000,000. By 1992 the estimated number rose to nearly six By 2012, there had been over eight billion Bibles distributed throughout world—with the vast majority still available for use. And these figures do not include the various digital versions of the Bible being used today by millions on computers, Blackberries and iPhones.
- The Bible still tops the best seller lists every World sales of the Bible are more than 100 million every year, far out-pacing any other book in history. Without a doubt, the Bible is the best selling book of all time.
- The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and the New Testament was originally written in Currently, the complete Bible has been published in over 450 languages. The New Testament alone has been published in nearly 1,400 languages, with the Gospel of Mark in over 2,370 languages. Although these figures represent less than half of the languages and dialects presently in use in the world, they nonetheless include the primary vehicles of communication of well over 90% of the world’s population. (United Bible Societies World Report, March 2002)
- The Harper San Francisco Book Catalog estimates that the annual expenditure for Bibles in America is currently $425 million and that the average American household contains four Bibles.
- A conservative estimate is that in 2005 Americans purchased some twenty- five million Bibles—twice as many as the most recent Harry Potter (The New Yorker, April 18, 2006)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between the years 1947 and The area is 13 miles east of Jerusalem and is 1300 feet below sea level. The mostly fragmented texts are numbered according to the cave from which they came. They have been called the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times.
- The Dark Ages are so named because knowledge was frowned upon by Christendom, which forbid the reading and possession of the The Church admits this in her own Laws : “Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should not be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.” (The Church Council of Toulouse 1229 AD) Hundreds of thousands have been tortured in the name of Christ, to prevent his own words from reaching the hearts and minds of the people.
- Examination of every Scripture on a single subject was once an Now it is relatively easily accomplished by use of two large books: Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and Young’s Analytical Concordance. Each of these books lists every word in the King James Bible. Also listed are the Hebrew and Greek words from which they come with definitions.
- “Binding and loosing” was a common form of expression in Bible times to indicate forbidding and Matthew 16:19 states: “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Respecting the apostles alone, God controlled their utterances so that their decisions and writings might properly be considered authoritative.
- Jews call their Bible The Tanakh. The word is based upon the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible: the Law, the Prophets, and the The Hebrew words for these are Torah, Nebi’im, and Kethubim. The first letters of these three words are T-N-K, which come together in the word Tanakh.
- When Jesus said, “one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18), he affirmed the importance of the Old Testament and the Law of The jot was the yodh, the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, while the tittle was only part of a letter: a small pen stroke. Jesus also said: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” (Matthew 5:17) And Galatians 3:24, 25 states: “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ…”
- The Great Pyramid in Egypt is referenced in the (See Isaiah 19:19-20) The pyramid is the only shape that has four corners stones and one top stone—a chief corner stone. The top stone of the Great Pyramid was rejected by the builders, just as Jesus was rejected. “Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner…” Matthew 21:42; Ephesians 2:20
- The Bible is the oldest history book ever written which has survived its history.
- Parables are not meant to be easily understandable, but were meant to hide truths from those who were just curious readers of the Bible. “And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given… Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand… But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.”
Chapter Nine