The New Testament Arrangement
•	Lecture 12

Division One: ______________________in nature and 
•	_______in number
•	Matthew
•	Mark
•	Luke
•	John
•	Acts

These Five
•	Make up the ______________________section of the NT.

The Four Gospels
•	Are four records of the one and only Gospel, which is the ______________________of God’s salvation brought near in Jesus Christ– are not, as sometimes imagined, ______________________of Christ, not in the proper sense of the word. 

The Gospels
•	Are rather, the written deposit of the early ______________________preaching and teaching.  The major of these are the ______________________and works of Jesus.  

The First Three
•	Gospels are commonly called the “______________________” gospels because of the vast amount of materials that are ______________________among them. 

The Fourth Gospel
•	Was most surely written after the first three. The testimony of ______________________is found in this Gospel. 

The Book of Acts
•	Was the second part of the history of Christian origins written by ______________________the physician of Antioch, the friend and traveling companion of Paul.  It takes up the story where Luke ______________________leaves off. It tells of how the church grew and spread from Jerusalem to Rome within the first ______________________years after the death of Christ. 

Division Two: ____________________________________________ Group
•	Romans
•	1 & 2 Corinthians
•	______________________
•	Ephesians
•	Philippians
•	Colossians
•	1 and 2 ______________________

Division Two:
•	Their Number is ______________________
•	Their Nature is ______________________

The Author 
•	Is the Apostle Paul.
•	Most of these can be dated between AD ______________________and 61 and these form the earliest of our Christian literature (exception may be______________________).  It would be about the end of this period that the 4 gospels began to circulate. 
Division Three: ______________________Epistles
•	Namely ______________________
•	Their Nature is ______________________and ______________________
•	1 Timothy
•	2 Timothy
•	______________________and
•	______________________

Division Four: ______________________Christian Epistles
•	A Group of ______________________
•	Hebrews and 
•	James
•	1 and 2 ______________________
•	1, 2, and 3 John
•	Jude and ______________________
•	Hebrews seems addressed to the Hebrew nation 
•	James is addressed to the ______________________tribes scattered abroad
•	1 and 2 Peter are written to the sojourners of the Dispersion
•	These are Hebrew in ______________________and atmosphere

The New Testament Picture
•	5 ______________________Books, are like a 5 fold slab of basic facts under our feet
•	One each side are the nine ______________________Church Epistles
•	These two pillars are attached to the four ______________________Epistles and 
•	the ______________________Christian Epistles 
•	these are the arch of the NT
A Second Picture
•	Under New Testament History are 5 Historic Foundation Books
•	Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Acts
•	These are Followed by the last ______________________Books which can be divided into a 9-4-9 pattern
•	______________________ (9) Christian Church Epistles
•	______________________ (4) Pastoral and Personal Epistles
•	______________________ (9) Hebrew Christian Epistles

The New Testament Picture

The New Testament Picture

Coincidence?
•	Consider these facts:
•	Both Groups of 9 (Christian Church and Hebrew Christian)
•	begin with heavy, major doctrinal books ( Romans and Hebrews) 
•	Romans shows that Jesus is the ______________________way and
•	Hebrews shows that Jesus is the ______________________way
•	1 and 2 Thessalonians ends the first nine with a key note on the ______________________of Christ
•	Revelation ends its nine with the key note of the ______________________of Christ
•	What is your verdict? Chance? Coincidence? Divine Authorship?