Question of the Week: Was the Bible originally divided into chapters and verses?
Verses: 2 Timothy 3:16
The short answer is no. The long answer is that the introduction of chapters and verses were introduced at later dates for the purpose of assistance in personal bible study. Finding a passage by looking through scripture one book at a time would be a time-consuming task, so chapter divisions were introduced by Stephen Langton in 1227AD. The first bible to use his chapter divisions was the Wycliff English Bible published in 1382. Later on, these chapters were also narrowed down to verses in 1448 by Rabbi Nathan to assist those who were studying the Old Testament. This was applied to the New Testament in 1555 by a man named Robert Estienne. These chapter divisions are not divinely inspired nor ever claimed to be. They were simply introduced as tools to assist those who wanted to dig deeper into God’s word.
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