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THE NEW TESTAMENT

Please click on any of the links below to go to the rest of the New Testament. The Term New "Testament" is translated from the Greek word "diatheke" which is more frequently translated in the Bible as "covenant".

1242 diatheke {dee-ath-ay'-kay}

from 1303; TDNT - 2:106,157; n f

AV - covenant 20, testament 13; 33

1) a disposition, arrangement, of any sort, which one wishes to

be valid, the last disposition which one makes of his earthly

possessions after his death, a testament or will

2) a compact, a covenant, a testament

2a) God's covenant with Noah, etc.

God revealed Himself through all of His prophets and witnesses, over a period of 1600 years, through two covenants. The first covenant was with His chosen people the Jews, and in the record of that covenant, a new covenant was prophesied by the prophet Jeremiah as discussed here. The new covenant included Gentiles into God's plan of salvation. Jesus Christ fulfilled that new covenant as revealed through the testimony of His New Testament witnesses.

From Halley's Bible Handbook:

"The Four Gospels

The Four Gospels are, by all odds, the Most Important part of the Bible: more important than all the rest of the Bible put together: for we could better afford to be without the knowledge of everything else than to be without the knowledge of Christ.

Bible books that precede are Anticipatory, and those that follow are Explanatory, of the Hero of the Four Gospels."

The Gospel books are believed to be organized in the Bible in the order in which they were written, though some suggest that Mark may have written before Matthew.

Matthew - as early as 50 AD but prior to 70 AD

Mark - 55 AD but prior to 70 AD

Luke - 63 AD or earlier

John - 80s to 90s

With Acts written in about 63 AD

The New Testament letters are not organized chronologically. It is helpful to read them in the approximate order in which they were written.

Galatians - 49 AD

1Thessalonians - 51

2Thessalonians - 52

1Corinthians - spring 57

2Corinthians - fall 57

Romans - Winter 57-58

Colossians - 61-68

Philemon - 64

Ephesians - 61-63

Philippians - 61-63

1 Timothy - 64-67

Titus - 65

2 Timothy - 64-67

With the remainder of the books dated

James - 60 AD

Hebrews - 61-63

1 Peter - 64-67

2 Peter - 67

Jude - 67

1, 2, 3, Epistles of John Early 90s

Revelation - 95 AD


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