M57 Facts, Stats and Syntax
Polls and Statistics
An estimated 79 million Bibles are distributed each year.
1.87 billion people, or 28%
of the world’s population, have not heard of Jesus.
Taken from http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/globalchristianity/resources.php
Word Study
The word “Bible” comes from the
Greek words ta biblia, which
mean “the books.” However, reading the Bible is not like reading any other
collection of 66 books. The name “Bible” is used to imply that it is the collection
of books, the books we really should read, because they are the right books.
Did You Know?
There are five chapters in the
Book of Lamentations, and the first four chapters are acrostic. This means each
verse or set of verses begins with subsequent letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
The Hebrew alphabet has twenty-two letters so the chapters begin with the first
letter, Aleph (א), and ends in the last letter, Tav
(ת).
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