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John

New Testament

Book Statistics

Chapters 21

Verses 879

Total Words 18,712

Average Verses / Chapter 41.86

First and Last Verse

First Verse

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Last Verse

John 21:25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

Chapter Statistics

Longest Chapter Chapter 6

71 verses

Shortest Chapter Chapter 2

25 verses

Longest Verse

Reference John 21:17

Word Count 56

Character Count 216

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Top 25 Most Frequently Used Meaningful Words

#	Word	Occurrences	% of All Words	Relative Frequency
1	jesus	253	1.35%	13.52
2	father	138	0.74%	7.37
3	god	85	0.45%	4.54
4	disciples	83	0.44%	4.44
5	world	80	0.43%	4.28
6	dont	77	0.41%	4.12
7	things	77	0.41%	4.12
8	man	76	0.41%	4.06
9	believe	73	0.39%	3.90
10	jews	71	0.38%	3.79
11	son	64	0.34%	3.42
12	sent	57	0.30%	3.05
13	life	47	0.25%	2.51
14	lord	46	0.25%	2.46
15	word	46	0.25%	2.46
16	day	40	0.21%	2.14
17	away	37	0.20%	1.98
18	didnt	36	0.19%	1.92
19	works	35	0.19%	1.87
20	peter	34	0.18%	1.82
21	even	31	0.17%	1.66
22	many	28	0.15%	1.50
23	believed	27	0.14%	1.44
24	love	27	0.14%	1.44
25	saying	27	0.14%	1.44

Words are case-insensitive, normalized, grouped using conservative suffix normalization, and filtered with an English stop-word list. Apostrophes and hyphens are removed within a token. Numbers and one-letter tokens remain in Total Words and the frequency denominators, but are excluded from this Top 25 list. Relative frequency is occurrences per 1,000 total words.