Religion

• Number of writers for the Bible is 40 or more
• Oldest book in the Old Testament is Job (1,500 B.C.)
• Oldest book in the New Testament is James (45 A.D.)
• Youngest book in the New Testament is Revelation (95 A.D.)
• First book of the New Testament in chronological order is Acts
• Last book of the Old Testament in chronological order is Zephaniah
• Shortest Books

  • Obadiah (1 chapter, 21 verses)
  • 2 John (1 chapter, 13 verses)
• Longest Books

  • Psalm (150 chapters)
  • Acts (28 chapters, 31 verses)
• Mark


  • Shortest, first, and the oldest among the four Gospels
• Luke

  • Longest Gospel (19,482 words)
• Longest Chapter

  • Psalm 119
  • Matthew 26
• Shortest Chapter

  • Psalm 117
  • Revelation 15
• Shortest Verse

  • 1 Chronicles 1:25
  • John 11:35, 2 words: "Jesus wept"
• Longest Verse

  • Esther 8:9 (78 words)
  • Revelation 20:4 (68 words)
• Pauline Letters

  • Romans - longest letter of St. Paul
  • Philemon - shortest letter of St. Paul
• Number of Chapters

  • O.T. - 1,075 including Deutero-Canonical Books, excluding Deutero-Canonical Books = 929
  • N.T. - 260, All in = 1,335
• Number of Verses

  • O.T. - 28,098 including Deutero-Canonical Books, excluding Deutero-Canonical Books = 23,145
  • N.T. - 7,959, All in = 36,057
• Number of words in Catholic version

  • O.T. - nearly 900,000 words
  • N.T. - 150,000 words
• First word in O.T.

  • "in" (Genesis)
• Last word(s) in N.T.

  • "Amen or so be it/let it be" (Revelation)