New Testament

American  

noun

1. the collection of the books of the Bible that were produced by the early Christian church, comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Revelation of St. John the Divine.

2. the covenant between God and humans in which the dispensation of grace is revealed through Jesus Christ.

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New Testament British  

noun

1. the collection of writings consisting of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Pauline and other Epistles, and the book of Revelation, composed soon after Christ's death and added to the Jewish writings of the Old Testament to make up the Christian Bible

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New Testament Cultural  

1. The second part of the Christian Bible (see also Bible). Christians believe that it records a “new covenant,” or “new testament,” that fulfills and completes God's “old covenant” with the Hebrews, described in the Old Testament.

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Example Sentences

The entire New-Testament Scriptures are full of phrases and allusions which clearly show the Essenean admixture, of which many examples might be quoted.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

It is impossible to fix the dates of the New-Testament books except approximately.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

We may, then, do this with the Old Testament: we may put New-Testament meaning into it.

From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James

From a shelf in his library, I took Schwegler's "Nachapostolische Zeitalter," a work which threw a flood of light on the problems of New-Testament criticism.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

That this is not true, might be proved from numerous passages of New-Testament scripture, were this the fitting place to adduce them.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry