No One Even in the Same Stratosphere

Throughout the current teaching series, The Wonder of Jesus, we’ve been looking at the amazing impact that Jesus has had on world history. There is no one single individual who has had anywhere near the impact on the world that Jesus has. There could be a lot of debate on who the next most influential person would be, but there is no one even in the same stratosphere when it comes to leaving a lasting fingerprint on the human race.

One illustration of this is the number of languages that the New Testament, which is about Jesus, has been translated into. There are between 6,800 and 6,900 individual unique languages in the world. The Gospels and most of the New Testament have been translated and printed in 2,500 of those languages. Amazing!

Someone could argue, though, that the Gospels and New Testament have only been translated into less than one half of all the languages. That’s not so impressive.

Of all of the other books that have been written down through history, there is none that compare in the incredible number of languages that a book has been translated into. Not Shakespeare, Plato, Socrates, Mark Twain, the Harry Potter series, none of them come close.

The next closest book, when considering languages it has been translated into, is Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote published in 1600. Don Quixote has been translated into sixty languages. That’s it. Sixty. A measly sixty languages!

There is no person, and there is no story that is even a close second in impact on world history when compared to the amazing person and story of Jesus. Jesus’ life and story has lapped multiple times anyone who follows!

Jesus is amazing! The story of Jesus is amazing!