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New Testament Books ​

The New Testament contains 27 books written in Greek between approximately AD 45–96. It records the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the birth of the Church.

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The NT was written by eyewitnesses or their close associates within the first generation of Christianity. All 27 books were recognized as canonical by the 4th century.

✝️ The Gospels — 4 Books ​

Four accounts of Jesus' life, each with a distinct perspective and audience.

Matthew ​

  • Author: Matthew (Levi), tax collector and apostle | Date: c. AD 55–65 | Chapters: 28
  • Audience: Jewish Christians | Key theme: Jesus as the fulfillment of OT messianic prophecy
  • Summary: The most-quoted Gospel. Organized around five major discourses (mirroring the Torah), including the Sermon on the Mount (chs. 5–7). Opens with a genealogy connecting Jesus to Abraham and David.
  • 🎥 Overview: Part 1 on YouTube · Part 2

Mark ​

  • Author: John Mark (companion of Peter) | Date: c. AD 50–60 | Chapters: 16
  • Audience: Roman (Gentile) Christians | Key theme: Jesus as the Servant-Messiah who acts with authority
  • Summary: The shortest and most action-packed Gospel ("immediately" appears 40+ times). Emphasizes Jesus' deeds over discourses — miracles, healings, and ultimately the cross.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

Luke ​

  • Author: Luke, physician and historian | Date: c. AD 60–62 | Chapters: 24
  • Audience: Theophilus; Gentile readers broadly | Key theme: Jesus as Savior for all humanity
  • Summary: The most detailed Gospel, written by a careful historian. Emphasizes prayer, the Holy Spirit, women, outcasts, and the marginalized. Part 1 of a two-volume work (Luke–Acts).
  • 🎥 Overview: Part 1 on YouTube · Part 2

John ​

  • Author: John the Apostle | Date: c. AD 85–90 | Chapters: 21
  • Audience: The whole world | Key theme: Jesus as the eternal Son of God; belief leading to life
  • Summary: The most theological Gospel. Organized around 7 "I AM" statements and 7 miraculous signs. Written explicitly "so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God" (20:31).
  • 🎥 Overview: Part 1 on YouTube · Part 2

📜 Acts of the Apostles — 1 Book ​

Acts ​

  • Author: Luke | Date: c. AD 62 | Chapters: 28
  • Key people: Peter, Stephen, Philip, Paul, Barnabas, Silas
  • Themes: Holy Spirit, Church growth, mission, suffering, resurrection witness
  • Summary: The story of the Church from Pentecost to Paul in Rome — spreading from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth (1:8). The Holy Spirit is the primary agent throughout.
  • 🎥 Overview: Part 1 on YouTube · Part 2

✉️ Paul's Letters — 13 Books ​

Romans ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 57 | Chapters: 16
  • Themes: Gospel, justification by faith, sin, the law, Israel, ethics
  • Summary: Paul's most systematic theological letter — the fullest exposition of the gospel in Scripture. "The righteous shall live by faith" (1:17). Covers sin, salvation, sanctification, and service.
  • 🎥 Overview: Part 1 on YouTube · Part 2

1 Corinthians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 55 | Chapters: 16
  • Themes: Unity, wisdom, sexual ethics, spiritual gifts, resurrection, love
  • Summary: Addressing a divided, immature church in the world's most cosmopolitan city. The famous "love chapter" (ch. 13) and the resurrection argument (ch. 15) are here.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

2 Corinthians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 56 | Chapters: 13
  • Themes: Suffering, weakness, ministry, reconciliation, generosity
  • Summary: Paul's most personal letter — defending his apostleship while revealing that God's power is perfected in weakness. "My grace is sufficient for you" (12:9).
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

Galatians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 48–49 | Chapters: 6
  • Themes: Justification by faith alone, freedom from the law, the Spirit-led life
  • Summary: Paul's fiercest letter — a direct attack on "another gospel" (works-based salvation). "A person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ" (2:16).
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

Ephesians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 60–62 | Chapters: 6
  • Themes: The Church as the body of Christ, spiritual blessings, unity, armor of God
  • Summary: A majestic circular letter about God's eternal plan — redemption, reconciliation, and the Church as Christ's body. The famous "armor of God" passage is in ch. 6.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

Philippians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 61 | Chapters: 4
  • Themes: Joy, contentment, humility (the Christ-hymn), partnership in the gospel
  • Summary: The "joy letter" — written from prison. The Christ-hymn (2:5–11) is one of the earliest and most profound theological statements about Jesus' nature and work.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

Colossians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 60–62 | Chapters: 4
  • Themes: Supremacy of Christ, fullness in Christ, warning against false teaching
  • Summary: Christ is "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" (1:15). Written to counter early Gnostic-type teachings that added to or subtracted from Christ.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

1 Thessalonians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 50–51 | Chapters: 5
  • Themes: Encouragement, holiness, the second coming, grief and hope
  • Summary: One of Paul's earliest letters, written to a young church facing persecution. Contains the famous passage on the resurrection of the dead and the coming of Christ (4:13–18).
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

2 Thessalonians ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 51–52 | Chapters: 3
  • Themes: Endurance, the Day of the Lord, the man of lawlessness
  • Summary: Correcting misunderstandings about the second coming. The Day of the Lord has not yet come; certain events must occur first. Christians should live faithfully in the meantime.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

1 Timothy ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 62–64 | Chapters: 6
  • Themes: Church leadership, false teaching, prayer, godliness
  • Summary: Paul's instruction to his young protégé Timothy on how to lead the church at Ephesus — covering overseers, deacons, prayer, the role of women, and warnings against false teachers.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

2 Timothy ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 66–67 | Chapters: 4
  • Themes: Faithfulness, suffering, Scripture's authority, passing the torch
  • Summary: Paul's final letter, written just before his execution. "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness" (3:16).
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

Titus ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 62–64 | Chapters: 3
  • Themes: Church order, sound doctrine, godly living, grace
  • Summary: Instructions for Titus overseeing the churches in Crete — appointing elders, rebuking false teaching, and living lives that adorn the gospel.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

Philemon ​

  • Author: Paul | Date: c. AD 60–62 | Chapters: 1 (25 verses)
  • Themes: Reconciliation, forgiveness, brotherhood in Christ
  • Summary: Paul's briefest letter — a personal appeal on behalf of Onesimus, a runaway slave, asking his master Philemon to receive him back "no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother" (v. 16).
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

📘 General Letters — 8 Books ​

Hebrews ​

  • Author: Unknown (Paul, Apollos, Barnabas, and Priscilla all proposed) | Date: c. AD 65–69 | Chapters: 13
  • Themes: Christ as superior to angels, Moses, the priesthood, and the Old Covenant; faith
  • Summary: A brilliant theological sermon showing how Jesus is the fulfillment of every OT institution. The "hall of faith" (ch. 11) is Scripture's greatest gallery of trust in God.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

James ​

  • Author: James, brother of Jesus | Date: c. AD 45–50 | Chapters: 5
  • Themes: Practical wisdom, faith and works, taming the tongue, prayer, the poor
  • Summary: The most practical NT letter — closely resembling OT Wisdom literature. "Faith without works is dead" (2:26) — true faith inevitably produces righteous action.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

1 Peter ​

  • Author: Peter the Apostle | Date: c. AD 62–64 | Chapters: 5
  • Themes: Suffering, hope, holy living, submission, the grace of God
  • Summary: Written to scattered Christians facing persecution — calling them to live as "foreigners and exiles" (2:11) whose true citizenship is in heaven, enduring suffering as Christ did.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

2 Peter ​

  • Author: Peter the Apostle | Date: c. AD 65–68 | Chapters: 3
  • Themes: False teachers, the Transfiguration, the Day of the Lord, growth in grace
  • Summary: A farewell letter warning about false teachers who will come and urging Christians to grow in knowledge of Christ while awaiting His return with patience.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

1 John ​

  • Author: John the Apostle | Date: c. AD 85–95 | Chapters: 5
  • Themes: Light/darkness, love, truth, assurance of salvation, eternal life
  • Summary: "God is love" (4:8). Written to give believers assurance that they truly know God — providing three tests: belief in Christ, love for others, and obedience to God's commands.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube (1–3 John)

2 John ​

  • Author: John the Apostle | Date: c. AD 85–95 | Chapters: 1 (13 verses)
  • Themes: Truth, love, false teachers, hospitality
  • Summary: A brief letter to "the chosen lady" (a church or woman) — urging walking in truth and love while refusing hospitality to those who deny Christ.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube (1–3 John)

3 John ​

  • Author: John the Apostle | Date: c. AD 85–95 | Chapters: 1 (15 verses)
  • Themes: Hospitality, supporting missionaries, church authority
  • Summary: A personal letter commending Gaius for his hospitality to traveling teachers and rebuking Diotrephes for his self-serving leadership.
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube (1–3 John)

Jude ​

  • Author: Jude, brother of Jesus | Date: c. AD 65–80 | Chapters: 1 (25 verses)
  • Themes: Contending for the faith, apostasy, judgment on false teachers
  • Summary: A fierce warning against false teachers who "have secretly slipped in among you" (v. 4), drawing on OT examples of divine judgment. Ends with a magnificent doxology (vv. 24–25).
  • 🎥 Overview: Watch on YouTube

🔮 Prophecy — 1 Book ​

Revelation (The Apocalypse) ​

  • Author: John the Apostle | Date: c. AD 95 | Chapters: 22
  • Key themes: Worship, tribulation, judgment, the return of Christ, new creation
  • Summary: A symbolic vision given to John on Patmos — seven letters to churches, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls of judgment, the fall of Babylon, the millennium, the last judgment, and the new heaven and earth. "Behold, I am making all things new" (21:5).
  • 🎥 Overview: Part 1 on YouTube · Part 2

See also: Old Testament Books · Biblical Characters · Prophecies & Fulfillment

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