New Year, New Testament (charts)


Here is a list of every person in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I made it for fun but I believe it also has some useful information in it. Here is a link to it. I have not done a similar guide for Acts through Revelation yet but I will be working on one and can hopefully get it out in the near future.  

In the meantime, I have another chart that I created to determine just how new the New Testament really is. This is an exercise that much smarter and more talented people than me have undertaken and you can find their varied results on the internet but this (as with everything I post) was just for fun. You can find that here. 

Feel free to share these around with people that may find them useful or interesting. I love stuff like this and I imagine that others might as well. Enjoy!

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