THE NEW TESTAMENT
"After so many experiences there came a time of crisis for the people of Israel when God wanted to bring them at last to a mature faith. And Jesus came for that purpose. The most transcendental experience in all of history was fulfilled in him. Jesus - his efforts to save the Jewish people from imminent destruction, his rejection, his death, and then his resurrection - this was the final word of God.
The person of Jesus gave rise to the preaching of the apostles and to the first communities of Christ's Church. The written testimonies of these beginnings, approved by responsible members of the church [at the council of Nicaea in 325 AD], form the New Testament; the books of the New Covenant, where the book cannot but help with the work of the Holy Spirit within us instilling the total, unique truth which becomes certainty within us."
- Christian Community Bible - 49th Edition
Estimated walking time
2 Hours
Estimated running time
45 Minutes
Estimated cycling time
30 Minutes
BOOK 1
MATTHEW
York's Chocolate Story
"...baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,..."
BOOK 2
MARK
Barnitts
"...'Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?' Jesus said, 'I am'..."
BOOK 3
LUKE
Central Methodist Church
"Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
BOOK 4
JOHN
Jorvik Dig
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"
BOOK 5
ACTS
Trinity Church
"...suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house..."
BOOK 6
ROMANS
St Cuthbert's Church
"Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep."
BOOK 7
CORINTHIANS
Monkgate Bar
"Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude."
BOOK 8
2 CORINTHIANS
Merchant Taylor's Hall
"Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light"
BOOK 9
GALATIANS
St Andrew's Evangelical Church
"...God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law..."
BOOK 10
EPHESIANS
Bedern Hall
"So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours..."
BOOK 11
PHILIPPIANS
Holy Trinity Goodramgate
"For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish..."
BOOK 12
COLOSSIANS
Barley Hall
"...seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God."
BOOK 13
1 THESSALONIANS
The Emperor Constantine
"For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness."
BOOK 14
2 THESSALONIANS
The Stone Mason's Yard
"... keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition they received from us."
BOOK 15
1 TIMOTHY
The Minster School
"...in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons."
BOOK 16
2 TIMOTHY
St William's College
"No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier's aim is to please the enlisting officer."
BOOK 17
TITUS
York Minster
"... as for you, teach what is consistent with sound doctrine."
BOOK 18
PHILEMON
York St John's University
"Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful both to you and to me."
BOOK 19
HEBREWS
York Hospital
"... show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it."
BOOK 20
JAMES
York City Football Club
"... You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone."
BOOK 21
1 PETER
St Peter's School (& Foot Bridge)
"Always be ready to make your defence to any one who demands from you an account of the hope that is in you;..."
BOOK 22
2 PETER
St Olave's Church
"... people are slaves to whatever masters them."
BOOK 23
JOHN
York Art Museum
"...If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
BOOK 24
2 JOHN
The King's Manor
"Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh..."
BOOK 25
3 JOHN
York Theatre Royal
"... imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God."
BOOK 26
JUDE
Bootham Bar
"...keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life."
BOOK 27
REVELATIONS
St Wilfrid's Church & Gardens
"... a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."