كم مرة وردت كلمة "كنيسة" في الكتاب المقدس؟ 77 مرة في نسخة الملك جيمس، كلها في العهد الجديد

The KJV says “church” 77 times. Add “churches,” 37 more, and there are 114, every one in the New Testament. The first is Jesus speaking to Peter: “upon this rock I will build my church” (Matthew 16:18). Behind nearly all of them stands one Greek word, ekklesia, an assembly. An assembly is people, gathered. In ordinary Greek the word meant citizens called out of their homes into one public place, and the first Christians took it for themselves. So when…