There is overlap between the sayings of Jesus in the apocryphal texts and canonical Christian writings, and those not present in the canonical texts are called agrapha.

Raguel is not mentioned in the canonical writings of the Bible.

In fact, the Bible was not originally a book at all, but a collection of canonical writings, a religious library.

Ever since priests, scholars, and poets used writing to record Scripture, prayer law, and history both exalted and prosaic, reverence for canonical writings has lent an august power to written words themselves.

In 1994 published the Bible Society left a Bible edition with both the apocryphal and the canonical writings in Norwegian.

A complete edition of his canonical writings appeared in Leuven in 1649 and in Cologne in 1662.

He has to put his trust in the canonical writing and does so in full confidence; but what he says about their authorship and emergence is, in part at least, manifest nonsense.

In modern usage, the term is often figurative and represents a canonical writing, a literary benchmark emblematic of what defines American literature in a given era.

Not only are some of the names on the bone boxes relatively common names, but no writings of Jesus' life, canonical or apocryphal, reported a marriage or children.

The canonical writings of the New Testament, as well as other written sources from the early church, provide some insights into Saint James' life and his role in the early church.