How to Use New Testament in a Sentence

New Testament

noun
  • In Germany, Luther’s New Testament was a catalyst for making the Saxon dialect the linguistic default, at least on the page.
    Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Three years after that, William Tyndale published his New Testament translation from the original Greek into English.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • The next year, a French humanist and religious reformer named Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and his associates produced a New Testament in French.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • The canonical Gospels, the accounts of Jesus’ life included in the Bible’s New Testament, make no mention of those animals welcoming the newborn.
    Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Yii-Jan Lin, a professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School and author of the book Immigration and Apocalypse, views the video as a calculated provocation.
    Jason Derose, NPR, 26 May 2026
  • Originally, Bell voiced Mary Magdalene for The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible, a New Testament audiobook released in 2010.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2025

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