Context matters a great deal-in fact, it governs the meaning of everything. And finally, we will consider several different proposals for the compositional order: the order in which New Testament writings were actually written down.Īs one final prolegomenological note, let me foreground my belief that each of these orders provides insights into the meaning and message of the New Testament. Second, we will consider chronological order: the order in which the events of the New Testament are portrayed. First, we will consider canonical order: the order in which the writings of the New Testament appear in modern, published Bibles. In this article, we will look at the major orders in which the New Testament can appear. Why is the New Testament organized how it is, and not some other way? Why is the New Testament canon laid out in the order that it is? Why is the New Testament not arranged in order of its events? Or, to ask yet a slightly different question, why is the New Testament not arranged in the order in which it was written? For one thing, the story of Jesus gets repeated four times, then you hear the story of the early church, and then you begin to read letters that don’t seem to be in any sort of coherent order.
Begin reading through the New Testament and, in addition to the grand story, you will eventually notice a few things.
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