New Testament
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- proper noun
- /nuː ˈtɛstəmənt/
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Nuevo Testamento
- Many scholars study the New Testament to understand the origins of Christianity.
- book of the New Testament
- passages from the New Testament
- New Testament stories
The Bible as well, the New Testament now Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
- The Bible as well, the New Testament now Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
- The origin of the phrase is actually from the New Testament, from the Gospel of Matthew.
- And lo and behold, this Greek looks like New Testament Greek.
- And there are also, I'm trying to remember in the New Testament where this is.
- That's what is taught in the New Testament.
- He does that a lot, by the way, man, if it's repeated in the New Testament, then it's prescriptive.
- I subscribe to an egalitarian vision of the New Testament and a more egalitarian hermeneutic.
- Then there is the New Testament, which the Jews don't recognize as a sacred book.
- That was, you know, our interpretation of some New Testament passages when we joined staff of crew.
- So for me, I have a, a, a belief based on faith in the New Testament.
- And that could be because Athanasius comes up with the Christian canonical New Testament as these are the four gospels.
- Often mistakenly cast as the God of the Old Testament versus the God of the the New Testament.
- It's said that the the the the, the, the Canon of the New Testament was decided at Nicaea and some books were discarded.
Examples
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The Gospels in the New Testament recount the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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And we can read that grand Christmas story in the New Testament with a deeper appreciation than ever before.
Fiction book (1990) -
Now the title comes from the New Testament book of John.
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And so those those are four very clear things in the New Testament for they seem like conditions right now.
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A student of the New Testament.
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Where in the New Testament does it say that God spoke to anyone except his son?
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In the New Testament, Jesus says, "Come to me all who are weak and heavy-laden "and I will give you rest."
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In the New Testament there's a Book of Revelation.
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There's a book of the Bible in the New Testament, it's called Ephesians.
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Martin created concrete statues illustrating New Testament stories and placed them in the park.
Academic text (1991)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'New Testament' is directly compositional: 'new' (recent/later) modifies 'testament' (the division of Scripture), referring to the later part of the Christian Bible. This is a literal, cross-linguistically common construction (e.g., Spanish 'Nuevo Testamento'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name New Testament comes from the idea of a 'new agreement' between God and people after Jesus. The word Testament was used like a 'will' or 'agreement', and New shows it replaces the earlier one, so the phrase names the collection of books about that new agreement.