Know The Answer?
Who am I: I am a Patriarch who came to Ireland in 569 B.C. With me came a princess daughter of an eastern king called Tea-Tephi. Earlier, my countrymen resented my message, they even threw me in to a dungeon.
Jeremiah

Reference:
Jeremiah 1:9-10

The Bible Answers Short Questions From Our Readers
Plain Truth Magazine
February 1959
Volume: Vol XXIV, No.2
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The Bible Answers Short Questions From Our Readers
Plain Truth Staff  

Question: When was the Bible divided into chapters and verses? Answer: The system of dividing the Bible into chapters and verses is man-made and of comparatively recent origin. The Bible, as inspired by God, had no such divisions. Chapters and verses are helpful in finding passages in the Bible, but the division into chapters and verses has often obscured the meaning of Scripture by breaking sentences in the middle or by separating thoughts that should be joined together. Too many people merely lift a verse out of its setting and read a false meaning into it because they don't read the context in surrounding verses. Perhaps the first attempted division of the Bible was undertaken by the early Jews. During the time following the Babylonian captivity, they marked off the scrolls into divisions and subdivisions. This system was quite different from the one that is in use today, however.

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Plain Truth MagazineFebruary 1959Vol XXIV, No.2