The Bible contains nothing.
Apocrypha are works , usually written works , that are of unknown authorship , or of doubtful origin . In the context of the Jewish and Christian Bibles , where some texts are of unknown authorship , Apocrypha usually is used by Protestants to refer to a set of texts included in the Septuagint and therefore included in the Catholic canon , but not in the Hebrew Bible . Bible . Among Christian denominations there is some disagreement about the contents of the canon , primarily the Apocrypha , a list of works that are regarded with varying levels of respect . With estimated total sales of over 5 billion copies , the Bible is widely considered to be the best-selling book of all time . New Testament . The New Testament is a collection of Christian works written in the common ( Koine ) Greek language of the first century , at different times by various writers , who were early Jewish followers of Jesus , and the modern consensus is that it also provides important evidence regarding Judaism in the first century AD .