Who indexed the Bible?

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This is a question I have yet found an answer anywhere on the internet, so it would be most helpful if responses came from a priest or someone with authority to speak on the matter. So…

Who indexed the Bible with all it’s different chapters and verses? Is this indexing canon? If so, why does the Apocalypse of John 11:19 - Apocalypse of John 12:1 seem to run together? They ought to be the same chapter because they are part of the same revelation, that Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant and that she Queen of Heaven. This separation is the excuse I get from protestants that she is not those things because they are separate thoughts (according to them)
Chapter 11:19 - And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake, and great hail. Chapter 12:1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
 
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He was, at one time, but became a Protestant.

However, he was an expert in ancient languages.

Not quite sure what bearing the faith tradition of the person devising a system mattered, though…the numbering of verses has nothing to do with the literal or spiritual interpretation of scripture.
 
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Who indexed the Bible with all it’s different chapters and verses?
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You might find the Wikipedia article, Chapters and verses of the Bible, of interest.

According to Wikipedia, Stephen Langton (1150-1228), an English Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Canterbury (England) from 1207-1222, is credited with having divided the Bible into the standard modern arrangement of chapters used today.

According to Wikipedia, Robert Estienne (1503-1559), a 16th-century French printer and classical scholar, was first to print the Bible divided into standard numbered verses.
 
Ok, yeah I will check that out. I guess I was just googling the wrong questions. But, can we say that the indexing is divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit?
 
Stephen Langton, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury, divided all the books of the Bible into chapters when he was still a theologian at the Sorbonne, in around 1190. The chapters were split up into verses in later centuries by different people in different places, mainly in Italy, I believe.

 
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The previous responses answer the question well. As to why it was done, according to Father Mitch Pacwa, was to ensure that monks who laboriously hand-copied the manuscripts would not inadvertently repeat a passage that another monk had been working on.
 
No, there is nothing divinely inspired about how the books of the Bible have relatively recently come to be divided up into chapters and verses.
 
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