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Joe,

Thanks for that NT Stats link! I played with a few of its beans and came up with this, based on total Greek words:

Author	# Words	% Words
All	138,020	100.0
Luke	37,933	27.5
Paul	32,407	23.5
John	28,092	20.4
Matthew	18,345	13.3
Mark	11,304	8.2
Hebrews	4,953	3.6
Peter	2,783	2.0
James	1,742	1.2
Jude	461	0.3

Even if we assume Paul wrote Hebrews, Luke still wins:

Author	# Words	% Words
All	138,020	100.0
Luke	37,933	27.5
Paul	37,360	27.1
John	28,092	20.4
Matthew	18,345	13.3
Mark	11,304	8.2
Peter	2,783	2.0
James	1,742	1.2
Jude	461	0.3

Back on-topic, it's interesting how little Peter actually wrote...

Back off-topic again, it would be interesting--and very time-consuming--to redo the above tables based not merely on words written, but on words written and/or spoken. I.e. Paul's words in Acts should be taken from Luke and assigned to Paul; same with Peter; and the Lord's words in the Gospels etc. taken from the writers and assigned to him. In that case, Paul (and Peter) would certainly rise, while Luke and the other gospel writers would go down quite a bit. Anybody ready to count some more beans?