There was no Bible when Jesus was alive. I am a little rough on my knowledge of the Jewish religion, but I believe they had three large books like the Bible. One of them was the Tora, and it contained the books in the Old Testament.A long time after Jesus' death, we gathered up all the letters of saints and we gathered up the four gospels we knew to be accurate into one book, along with the Tora. Long long after that, we translated it to English. Did you know that there are about 27 gospels? All but four, the ones written by St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John are innacurate.