Neville tells his audience that the Bible originally held eighty books, of which fourteen -- now collected as the Apocrypha, including the Epistle of James, from which he quotes a scene of shepherds and a midwife at a mysterious birth -- were removed around the turn of the nineteenth century, leaving the 66 books (39 Old Testament, 27 New Testament) found in most Bibles today. He notes the New English Bible has since restored some of what was deleted.