The Red Letters : The Greatest Words Ever Spoken

“ This cup is the new testament in my blood, which I shed for you. ” 

Luke 22:20 

This is the verse that inspired Louis Klopsch, then editor of The Christian Herald to edit a New Testament with the words spoken by Jesus printed in red ink. When he asked his mentor Rev. Talmage he told him "It could do no harm and it most certainly could do much good"

What importance do  Christians give today to the greatest words ever spoken, the words of Jesus? Is it at least proportionate to their frequency in God's Word? Let's start by crunching some numbers to get an idea of it. The number of words in the New Testament is around 180,000 of which barely over 20% are words of Christ. Considering verses, the New Testament has 7,959, of which but 1,599 or exactly 20% are sayings of Christ.

These relatively few sayings of Jesus have not a place apart, but run in an uneven distribution through the four Gospels (a few in other Books); and in each of the four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John—the "sayings" are unevenly distributed through the narrative, as follow :
    

Often a "saying" recorded by Matthew, is paraphrased, or even duplicated, by one or more of the other three biographers. Accordingly, only the devoted reader of the New Testament, the habitual reader, has become familiar with Christ's sayings to the point where he can comprehend them as one message, one gospel proclaiming the Saviour's great objective.

In order to provide better understanding of God's Big Picture revealed through His Son's Words, I have decided to use design to reveal an accurate picture of what His words say throughout His Message. This is the beautiful and inspiring result :