Tough Puzzle....

Jimz31

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See if you can find them all:

Can you find the names of 25 books of the Bible in theis paragraph? This is a most remarkable puzzle. Someone found it in the seat pocket on a flight from Las Angeles to Honolulu, keeping himself occupied for hours. One man from Illinois worked on this while fishing from his john boat. Roy Clark studied it while playing his banjo.
Elaine Victs mentioned it in her column once. One woman judges the job to be so involving; she brews a cup of tea to help calm her nerves. There will be some names that are really easy to spot...that's a fact. Some people will soon find themselves in a jam, especially since the book names are not necessarily capitalized. The truth is, from answers we get, we are forced to admit it usually takes a minister or scholar to see some of them at the worst. Something in our genes is responsible for the difficulty we have. Those able to find all of them will hear great lamentations from those who have to be shown. One revelation may help, books like 1 Timothy and Samuel may occur without their numbers. And pucntuation or spaces in the middle are normal. A chipper attitude will help you compete. Remember, there are 25 books of the Bible lurking somewhere in this paragraph.

(I bolded one to help) I have found all but 2.
 

LaTunaNostra

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;) That was cute...and well done to hide so many words and still keep some semblence of a logical narrative.

Romans and Matthew were killers.
 

Jimz31

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I found the other two about 15 minutes after I posted.

I'll bold all of the answers later to let others try.
 

LaTunaNostra

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What is time consuming is not knowing WHICH 25 books are included.

Hint: don't try to find Thessalonians.
 

LaTunaNostra

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Jim, I'm bumping this...maybe because after all the time I spent looking at it, I wanna give the answers. :)
 

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I passed this on to my mother and she called me and said she didn't know she had such a low down son lol

It took her until the afternoon to finish it :D
 

LaTunaNostra

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Yeagermeister said:
It took her until the afternoon to finish it :D

Good for mom...it's one of those things that get under your skin til you get it all........especially the answer that straddled three words. ;)
 

trickblue

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I found 72... I made up 6 since there are only 66 books in the bible...

It's funny... I remember that puzzle as a young lad in Sunday School... I was just thinking about it the other day...
 
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