Nearly all the New Testament writings were evoked by particular occasions, or addressed to particular destinations.
There are no indications in the New Testament of a systematic plan for the distribution of the Apostolic compositions, any more than there is of a definite new Canon bequeathed by the Apostles to the Church, or of a strong self-witness to Divine inspiration. John's Gospel implicitly presupposes the existence of the Synoptics (Matthew, Mark, and Luke). Already in the New Testament itself there is some evidence of a certain diffusion of canonical books: 2 Peter 3:15-16 supposes its readers to be acquainted with some of St. Those writings which possessed the unmistakable stamp and guarantee of Apostolic origin must from the very first have been specially prized and venerated, and their copies eagerly sought by local Churches and individual Christians of means, in preference to the narratives and Logia, or Sayings of Christ, coming from less authorized sources. The witness of the New Testament to itself: The first collections The Canon of the New Testament, like that of the Old, is the result of a development, of a process at once stimulated by disputes with doubters, both within and without the Church, and retarded by certain obscurities and natural hesitations, and which did not reach its final term until the dogmatic definition of the Tridentine Council. The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. The formation of the New Testament canon (A.D. Since the Council of Trent it is not permitted for a Catholic to question the inspiration of these passages.
Mark's Gospel, xvi, 9-20 about the apparitions of Christ after the Resurrection the verses in Luke about the bloody sweat of Jesus ( 22:43-44) the Pericope Adulteræ, or narrative of the woman taken in adultery ( John 7:53-8:11). The formerly disputed passages are three: the closing section of St. Peter, the Second and Third of John, Jude, and Apocalypse giving seven in all as the number of the New Testament contested books. These are for the entire books: the Epistle to the Hebrews, that of James, the Second of St. Like the Old Testament, the New has its deuterocanonical books and portions of books, their canonicity having formerly been a subject of some controversy in the Church.
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