Early Christians remembered the Bible by the first few words of a passage or by the name of the book or letter. They knew their Bibles very well, with many memorizing large portions.
To facilitate the ease of study of the Bible, the system of the division of the text into chapters was devised in 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de Caro. The numbering of the text within the chapters into verses was introduced in 1551 by a Protestant, Robert I. Estienne, who was a printer and classical scholar.
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