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The New Testament The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were written in Greek between about AD 40 and AD 95,
and were quickly recognized by believers as sacred.
A number of individuals authored these books.
Chapter and verse divisions were added much later to make it easier to find and remember the location of specific teachings.
Most modern English translations of the Bible take great care to accurately express in our language the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek so we too can understand God's message.
There is more manuscript support for the New Testament than for any other body of ancient literature. Over five thousand Greek, eight thousand Latin, and many more manuscripts in other languages attest the integrity of the New Testament. The King James New Testament was based on the traditional text of the Greek speaking churches, first published in 1516, and later called the Texus Receptus or Received Text. Although based on the relatively few availale manuscripts, these were representative of many more which existed at the time but only became known later. Since the 1880s most contemporary translations of the New Testament have relied upon a relatively few manuscripts discovered chiefly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Say something here!
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