Amazing Bible Facts

Amazing Bible Facts - Did You Know?

• Amazing Fact One - King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines
• Amazing Fact Two - The first baptism in the Bible was conducted by Moses, who used ox's blood to baptize the people
• Amazing Fact Three - The old testament was written in Hebrew
• Amazing Fact Four - The new testament was written in Greek
• Amazing Fact Five - The first book of the Bible features a serpent tempting Eve. The last book of Bible refers to the serpent as Satan
• Amazing Fact Six - The most Common Nouns are: Lord 7970 times, God 4094 times, Man 3323 times, King 2504 times, Sin 1016 times
• Amazing Fact Seven - The Bible mentions dogs, livestock, lion, game animals, and various other animals but it does not mention the domestic cat
• Amazing Fact Eight - The number 40 appears over and over in the Bible. 40 days in the wilderness, 40 years in the desert, 40 days of rain in the flood.
• Amazing Fact Nine - Old Testament books were scrolls, a strip of animal skin that was rolled up on two sticks. One ancient copy of the book of Isaiah is twenty-four feet long.
• Amazing Fact Ten - The oldest surviving manuscript of any part of the New Testament is a papyrus fragment containing verses from John 18; scholars estimate it was written about 125
• Amazing Fact Eleven - The word Bible comes from the Greek word for “papyrus plant” (biblos), since the leaves of that plant were used for paper
• Amazing Fact Twelve - A recent survey by Barna Research Group revealed that nearly 92% of American households own at least one Bible
• Amazing Fact Thirteen - The largest Bible in the world is 547 kilos and is 2.5 meters thick. It was created by a carpenter in Los Angeles who decided to cut out the entire Bible in wood. He worked on it for two years
• Amazing Fact Fourteen - A chariot of the time of the Bible was worth around $80,000 USD in today's money
• Amazing Fact Fifteen - The book of Isaiah was written sometime between 740 and 680 BC. This is at least 300 years before Aristotle suggested that the earth might be a sphere in this book On the Heavens.
• Amazing Fact Sixteen - The man that helped carry Jesus' cross to his crucifixion was named Simon (Matthew 27:32). Simon was from Cyrene (North Africa), and is also called "Niger" in Acts 13:1. "Niger" means "the black" in Greek
• Amazing Fact Seventeen - The word disciple comes from the Latin meaning pupil
• Amazing Fact Eighteen - Two lawyers are mentioned in the Bible named Gamaliel and Zenas
• Amazing Fact Nineteen - There are about 34,000 Christian denominations in the world
• Amazing Fact Twenty - The 12 disciples were not were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing