From time to time you’ll see an email claiming various facts about the Christian bible: The center verse, the center book, the center chapter. I’ve seen enough results on these that when I found a copy of the full text of the KJV online I decided to find the truth of the matter.
Middle verse:
- There are 31,097 verses in the bible.
- That means the middle verse is verse 15,549 (there are 15,548 before it and 15,548 after it).
Verse 15,549 is Psalm 103:1:
“Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.”
Middle chapter:
- There are 1,184 chapters in the bible.
- Thus, the middle chapter is two chapters: chapters 592 and 593 (there are 591 chapters before and after these chapters).
- Chapter 592-593 are Psalms 114-115.
Middle book:
- There are 66 books in the bible.
- The central books, then, are 33 and 34 (there are 32 books before and after).
- The central books, then, are Jonah and Micah.
Of course, these findings depend on the quality of the source and my scripts. I have no way of verifying that text is accurate to the canonical KJV, and I have no way of knowing the scripts are bug-free…
December 18th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hey, it’s not ‘live’ yet
Give it me a few weeks and it should be ready.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Oh, weird, the js link to the joke article brought me to this one …
December 18th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Oddly enough, Wordpress doesn’t have a “change comment root” option, or I’d fix it for ya.
I think it actually does things right, it’s just an unintuitive design. I’ve hit the wrong post occasionally too. It’s on the list.