Third, it will be helpful if we also keep in mind the fact that what is now called the New Testament originally consisted of twenty-seven separate scrolls of varying length. Matthew, for example, would have been written on a papyrus scroll about thirty-three feet long. Those twenty-seven scrolls were written by Matthew; Mark; Luke (Gospel and Acts); John (Gospel, Letters, perhaps Revelation); Paul; the author of Hebrews; James; Peter and Jude—nine authors in all, ten if Revelation was by a different