The Catholic New Testament contains how many books?

• A. 27
• B. 39
• C. 46
• D. 66

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is the number of writings contained in the Catholic New Testament. In Catholic tradition, the New Testament has twenty-seven books. This fixed set includes the four Gospels, Acts, the letters of Paul and other apostles, the General Epistles, and Revelation. Across the major Christian traditions, the New Testament list is the same, so twenty-seven is the standard total.

The other numbers reference different parts of the Bible: forty-six is the count of books in the Catholic Old Testament, thirty-nine is the Protestant Old Testament count, and sixty-six is the total number of books in a typical Protestant Bible (forty-nine?—just noting the total across both Old and New Testaments).