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St .Matthew
Chapters
1-2: Genealogy - Birth of Jesus - Visit of the Magi
- Slaughter of the children - The flight into Egypt
- Settlement at Nazareth.
Chapter 3: The preaching of John the Baptist
-Baptism of Jesus. Chapter 4: The temptation in the wilderness - Beginning of
the Galilean ministry.
Chapters 5-7: The Sermon on the Mount.
Chapters 8-9:
Miracles and teaching.
Chapters 10-12: The commission to the apostles
- Further teachings and miracles.
Chapter 13:
Parables of the kingdom.
Chapters 14-15:
Murder of John the Baptist - Miracles
and teaching. Chapters 16-20:
Intimations of approaching death - The transfiguration
- The Judean ministry. Chapters 21-25:
Final teaching and parables of judgment.
Chapters 26-28:
The anointing - The last supper -The agony
in the garden, the betrayal, trial, crucifixion
and resurrection.
[28 Chapters; 1,071 Verses; 23,684 Words]
St.
Mark
Chapter
1: The Baptist's ministry - The baptism of Jesus - The beginning
of his preaching The call of the disciples - Healing
of several sick persons.
Chapters 2-3: Opposition to Christ's ministry - The ordination of the twelve.
Chapters 4-5: Parables of the kingdom - Miracles of healing.
Chapters 6-9: Murder of John the Baptist - Feeding the five thousand - A
discourse on ceremonial pollution - Miracles of
healing. Chapters
10-13: The Judean ministry - A prophetic discourse
- The triumphal entry.
Chapters 14-16:
The trial, the crucifixion, and the resurrection.
[16 Chapters; 678 Verses; 15,171 Words]
St.
Luke Chapters
1-3: The
birth of John the Baptist - The Birth of Jesus - The
visit to Jerusalem - The preaching of John - The hymns
of Elizabeth and Mary, the hymn the shepherds heard
the angels sing and the hymn of Simeon - The genealogy
of Christ traced to Adam.
Chapter 4: The temptation - The preaching at
Nazareth - Miracles of healing.
Chapters 5-9: The Galilean ministry.
Chapters 10-I 8:
Parables of the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal
son, etc. - The sermon on the plain. Chapters 19-21:
The public entry into Jerusalem - Prophecies of the
end. Chapters
22-23: The trial, crucifixion, etc. Chapter 24: The
resurrection.
[24 Chapters; 1,151 Verses; 25,944 Words]
St.
John
Chapter
I: The pre-existence of Christ and the doctrine of the Incarnate
Word - The testimony of John the Baptist.
Chapters 2-6:
The miracle at Cana - Conversations with Nicodemus
and the Woman of Samaria - Miracles and discouse on
the Heavenly bread.
Chapters 7-12: Disputes with the Pharisees - The healing of the blind man
- The parable of the Good Shepherd the raising of
Lazarus. Chapters
13-17: The closing discourses to the disciples - The priestly prayer.
Chapters I 8-19: Trial and crucifixion.
Chapters 20-21: The resurrection and subsequent
appearances.
[21
Chapters; 879 Verses; 19,099 Words]
Acts
of the Apostles
Chapters
1-5: The ascension - Descent of the Holy Spirit - The ingathering at Pentecost - The beginning of apostolic
miracles - The death of Ananias and Sapphira - The
counsel of Gamaliel. Chapters 6-7:
Stephen's arrest and defense and execution.
Chapters 8-12:
Conversion of Saul of Tarsus - Peter's vision
and visit to Cornelius - Peter's deliverance from
prison. Chapters
13-28: Paul's three missionary journeys - His arrest - His trial before
Felix, Festus and Agrippa - His appeal to Caesar -
His journey to Rome
- Shipwreck - His preaching in Rome.
[28 Chapters; 1,007 Verses; 24.250 Words]
Romans
Chapters
1-3: Personal
greeting and thanksgiving - The vices of the heathen
world - The failure of the Jew to profit by the law.
Chapters 4-8: Salvation a free gift.
Chapters 9-11:
The relation of Christianity to Judaism - God's
revelation of himself consistent with his earlier
dispensation.
Chapters 12-16: Practical
application of the argument to the conditions of daily
life Concessions to weak brethren.
[16 Chapters; 433 Verses; 9,447 Words]
I.
Corinthians
Chapters
1-4: The
factions in the church - Inconsistent because of the
essential union in Christ.
Chapter 5:
The wicked member of the church - How he is
to be treated.
Chapters 6-14:
Paul's answers to seven questions submitted
by the Corinthian church – Lawsuits – Marriage -
Eating of food that had been offered to idols
- Position of women in the church - Spiritual gifts
and the use of strange tongues - Doubts and difficulties
about the resurrection - The collection of funds for
the poor at Jerusalem.
Chapter I5:
An elaborate argument on the resurrection.
Chapter 16:
Personal salutations.
[16 Chapters; 437 Verses; 9,489 Words]
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Corinthians
Chapters
1-9:
Congratulations on the improved condition of
the church - The repentant offender to be forgiven
and restored - Paul's consecration and his sufferings
- Exhortations to purity of life - To liberality.
Chapters 10-13:
A reply to persons who had disparaged Pau1
- He claims his apostleship - Could boast of his Jewish
standing - Has had revelations from God - The thorn
in the flesh - Warnings against false teachers.
[13 Chapters; 257 Verses; 6,092 Words]
Galatians
Chapters
1-4: Warning against teachers
who would bring them under the Jewish law of rites
and ceremonies - He had good authority for his teaching
- His commission from God - Reminder of the decision
of the council in Jerusalem - The law can never justify
them - The law superseded by Christianity, like Hagar
and Ishmael superseded by Sarah and Isaac. Chapters 5-6: An
exhortation to fidelity - The true way to overcome
sin is to walk in the spirit
- The fruits of the flesh and the spirit -
Paul's determination to glory in the cross.
[6 Chapters; 149 Verses; 3,098 Words]
Ephesians
Chapters
1-3: A benediction - Thanksgiving
to God for the grace proceeding from the atonement
- The Ephesian Christians have in the spirit an assurance
of participation - A prayer that they may appreciate
it - Jews as well as Gentiles in need of salvation
- Both united in a common bond - The privilege of
preaching so glorious a Gospel and suffering for it. Chapters 4-6: Consideration
of these facts should lead to unity, notwithstanding
the diversity of gifts - Diversity necessary because
different officers require diverse qualities - All
sin to be renounced - Marriage a type of the union
of Christ and his church
- How to behave in the home and social life
- The armor and weapons provided for the Christian.
[6 Chapters; 155 Verses; 3.039 Words]
Philippians
Chapter
I: The imprisoned apostle
grateful for the interest of friends at Philippi -
His belief that his suffering would promote the cause
of Christ – His danger
- He is indifferent to the issue because death
would only bring him sooner into the presence of Christ.
Chapter 2:
An exhortation to unity and unselfishness
- The example of Christ.
Chapter 3:
A warning against false teachers - Like an
athlete in a race Paul is striving to attain perfection.
Chapter 4:
An exhortation to purity - Gratitude for remembrances.
[4 Chapters; 104 Verses; 2,202 Words]
Colossians
Chapter
1: An expression of joy over the church's fidelity - All blessings
flow from Christ. Chapter 2:
Christ all-sufficient - Neither obedience to
Jewish law nor the practice of asceticism needed.
Chapter 3:
Love and loyalty to Christ the best security
for purity of life.
Chapter 4:
Exhortation to vigilance and prayer.
[4 Chapters; 95 Verses; 1,998 Words]
I.
Thessalonians
Chapters
1-3: Gratitude for the report
of the church's fidelity and courage~1t will remember
his unselfishness and zeal - Other churches suffer
persecution as the Thessalonians do - They were warned
that it would be so.
Chapters 4-5:
An exhortation to purity of life and to love
of the brethren - They need not mourn the death of
their friends - The dead believer will share with
the living in the glory of Christ's second coming.
[5 Chapters; 89 Verses; 1,857 Words]
ll.
Thessalonians
Chapters
1-2: Thanks for the church's
continued growth - It must not be disappointed at
the delay in the Lord's coming - Certain events must
take place first.
Chapter 3:
An exhortation to patience and prayer - Idleness
must be discountenanced - Paul's example.
[3 Chapters; 47 Verses; 1,042 Words]
I.
Timothy
Chapter
1: An exhortation to discourage
the discussion of unprofitable questions - A warning
against people who insist on the observance of Jewish
law - The true function of law - The Gospel a better
message. Chapters
2-3: Regulations for public worship - The position of women in the
church - The qualifications of bishops and deacons. Chapters 4-6: Warnings
against false teachers - How to deal with special
classes in the church.
[6 Chapters; 113 Verses; 2,269 Words]
II.
Timothy
Chapters
1-2: Thanksgiving for Timothy's
fidelity - An assurance that at the end of his life
he is not ashamed - His perfect confidence in Christ
- An exhortation to consecration and perseverance
- To purity and meekness.
Chapters 3-4: Certainty of false and hypocritical teachers arising
- The Scriptures a sufficient guide.
[4 Chapters; 83 Verses; 1,703 Words]
Titus
Chapter
1: The kind of men Titus is to ordain as bishops and elders -
The evils he may expect to confront him in Crete.
Chapter 2:
The instructions Titus is to give to special
classes. Chapter
3: To
avoid unprofitable questions and beware of heretics.
[3 Chapters; 46 Verses; 921 Words]
Philemon
An
appeal to a Christian to forgive a runaway slave,
who has been converted, and whom Paul sends back.
[1 Chapter; 25 Verses; 445 Words]
Hebrews
Chapters
1-7: The
supremacy of Christ - The greatest of all God's messengers
- Superior to angels - Superior to Moses - Superior
to Aaron - In what respects his priesthood is higher
than Aaron's.
Chapters 8-10: Christ's a better covenant than any of its predecessors.
Chapter 11:
The principle of salvation by faith running
all through Jewish history - Instances among the patriarchs.
Chapters 12-13:
The problem of suffering solved - Disciplinary
uses of suffering -Practical duties.
[13
Chapters; 303 Verses; 6,913 Words]
James
Chapter
I: The uses of trial -The
development of patience -The source of temptation
-The traitor in the soul -Futility of creed without
conduct -The paradox of a law of liberty - Charity
and purity characteristic of the religious man.
Chapter 2:
Inconsistency of undue deference to rich men
-The breaker of one commandment as truly a sinner
as the breaker of another - When faith does not produce
good works it is spurious.
Chapter 3:
The control of the tongue.
Chapter 4:
God ready to supply power for good conduct.
Chapter 5:
An arraignment of the selfish rich man.
[5 Chapters; 108 Verses; 2,309 Words]
I.
Peter
Chapter
1: A paean of praise to God
for the new hope based on the resurrection of Christ
- Faith leading to complete salvation -The realization
of the vision of the prophets.
Chapters 2-4:
Characteristics of the life based on the hope
- Believers, living stones built into a temple -The
stumbling-stone of unbelievers the corner-stone of
the church - Patience in suffering -The Christian
in the family, in society, and in the state.
Chapter 5:
An exhortation to purity.
[5 Chapters; 105 Verses; 2,482 Words]
II.
Peter
Chapter
1: Stages of progress in spiritual
life - Anxiety in view of approaching death for the
welfare of believers - An assurance of the verity
of the Gospel based on personal observation, as, for
instance, at the Transfiguration.
Chapter 2:
A warning against false teachers -The doom
of apostates.
Chapter 3:
The day of judgment inevitable though it be
delayed as the deluge was -The life such certainty
should produce.
[3 Chapters; 61 Verses; 1.559 Words]
Epistles
of John
EPISTLE
I.
Chapter 1: God is 1ight - His children should not live in darkness.
Chapters 2, 3: Conduct shows whether a man is born again - Hatred a sign of
spiritual darkness.
Chapters 4,5:
God is love -The loving soul proves its origin
-The witness of the Spirit to regeneration.
[5 Chapters; 105 Verses; 2,523 Words]
EPISTLE
II.
A definition of love as a life of practical
obedience - A warning against false teachers.
[1 Chapter; 13 Verses; 303 Words]
EPISTLE
III. A commendation of hospitality and brotherly kindness - Censure
of an offender for unchristian conduct
[1 Chapter; 14 Verses; 299 Words]
Jude
A
denunciation of unworthy members who had entered the
church.
[1 Chapter; 25 Verses; 613 Words]
Revelation
Chapters
1-3: A
prologue describing the circumstances of the revelation
- Messages to seven churches, each beginning with
a title of Christ, and an assurance of his knowledge
o ftheir condition, and ending with a promise to "him
that overcometh. "
Chapter4:
A vision off our living creatures and four
and twenty elders in heaven praising God.
Chapters 5-6: The judgments which are to close the long struggle between
good and evil in the world - Three series of sevens.
called, respectively, seals, trumpets and vials
The seventh seal comprises the seven trumpets,
and the seventh trumpet the seven vials - Two visions
of two witnesses who are martyred, and of a sun-crowned
woman whose child is persecuted by a dragon and two
wild beasts. Chapters I 7-20: The
doom of the child's enemies.
Chapters 21-22:
The triumphant issue of all the judgments,
the new heaven and the new earth - Christ's speedy
coming An
invitation to drink of the water of life.
[22 Chapters; 404 Verses; /2.000 Words]
The
New Testament Contains
27
Books - 260 Chapters - 7,957 Verses - 180,751 Words
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