All of that, however, created a problem. The scholars produced many different and incompatible systems. In one of them, Mark's Gospel was divided into almost 50 chapters, not the 16 we have now. In Paris in Langton's day, there were students from many countries, and they brought with them Bibles from their native lands. However, lectures and students could not share references. Why? Because the chapter divisions in their manuscripts simply did not match.
So Langton developed new chapter divisions. His system "caught the imagination of readers and scribes, "states The Book-A History of the Bible, and it "spread rapidly across Europe." He gave us the chapter numbering we find in most Bible today.
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