See how people, places, verses and evidence connect across the Bible Labs
See how the people, places, events and verses of the Bible connect. Tap a name for its mind map, check how sure each link is, and open the lab where you can see it.
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Built from the labs' own data. Place ids: Pleiades (CC BY) and OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Family relations: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0). Scripture: the King James Version (1769) and the 1919 Chinese Union Version (public domain). Evidence levels and sources: how we build the Labs →
Every Bible Lab holds careful data: the people of the Family Tree, the places of Jesus with their map ids, the stops of Holy Week, the parts of the Tabernacle, the claims behind each reconstruction. The Knowledge Graph Explorer joins all of it into one map, so you can follow a thread from one lab to the next.
Tap a name and it sits in the middle of a mind map. Its links are grouped in plain words: the verses that mention it, where it happened, who took part, the claims about it and the labs where you can see it. Every claim shows how sure we can be, from stated in the text to an artistic choice, and readings that link one passage with another are marked as interpretation, never as fact. Tap any circle to move on, or open the lab to see it in 3D.
| What it holds | About 6,000 people, places, events, objects, words, verses, claims and lab views |
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| Links | Over 9,000, each of a named kind: mentions, located at, during, part of, participant, shown in a lab, cites, about, read alongside |
| Views | A mind map (one thing and everything around it) and a cloud (its neighbourhood, or the whole graph) |
| Scripture | King James Version and the 1919 Chinese Union Version |
| Open data | Pleiades and OpenBible.info place ids; family relations from Theographic Bible Metadata |
What the Bible says, what our model adds to it, where good readers disagree, and where the old copies and the translations differ. We set the views side by side and do not pick a winner.
A person or a map place met in several labs is one node; parts of buildings stay separate per lab.
Every claim carries the evidence level its lab gave it; the graph adds no level of its own.
A link that reads one passage in the light of another is drawn dashed and marked as interpretation, with its own level.
Stated in Scripture. Quoted from the King James Version (KJV) and the 1919 Chinese Union Version (和合本).
John explains the saying as the Spirit, who was not yet given.
Textually stated
X-Dreamers39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried: "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink."
Textually stated37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Living waters go out from Jerusalem: one of the passages the graph links to John 7:38 as a reading, not as a quotation.
Textually stated8And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Choices the reconstruction has to make where the text is silent, each with its evidence level and the reason for it.
A person or a map place met in several labs is one node; parts of buildings stay separate per lab.
Why: People and places are matched by stable ids and open-data identifiers (Pleiades, OpenBible.info, Theographic); the Tabernacle's holy place is not Solomon's, so those are kept apart.
Every claim carries the evidence level its lab gave it; the graph adds no level of its own.
Why: The graph is built in memory from the labs' own data, so a claim reads the same in the lab, the graph and the evidence panels.
A link that reads one passage in the light of another is drawn dashed and marked as interpretation, with its own level.
Why: Such links are someone's reading, not a fact of the text; the graph never ranks one reading above another beyond their levels.
John 7:38: the rivers of living water flow from the one who believes.
Why: The punctuation of most translations and many Greek writers since Origen; compare John 4:14.
John 7:38: the rivers of living water flow from Jesus.
Why: A punctuation found in some early Latin writers and argued by many modern commentators: “come… and drink” as a couplet; Jesus as the source of living water (4:10) and water from his side (19:34).
“As the scripture hath said” gathers several Old Testament promises of water rather than quoting one verse.
Why: No verse matches the words. Zechariah 14 joins living waters from Jerusalem with the Feast of Tabernacles (14:8, 14:16); Ezekiel 47 sees water flowing from the temple; Isaiah 58:11 promises a spring that does not fail; the wilderness rock (Exodus 17:6, Psalm 78:16) is what the booths remembered; Nehemiah 9:15, 20 recalls water and the Spirit in the wilderness.
“That great day of the feast” is the eighth day, the solemn assembly.
Why: Leviticus 23:36 and Numbers 29:35 make the eighth day a holy convocation that closes the feast. If this is the day, Jesus spoke after the water rites had ended: the Mishnah gives the water libation seven days (Sukkah 4:1).
The mind map's grouping and the cloud's positions are drawing choices.
Why: Distance on screen means nothing about how closely two things are related; only the labelled links carry meaning.
Where careful readers disagree. Each view with who holds it and the evidence for and against it. No verdict.
John 7:37–38; John 4:14; John 19:34
Held by The punctuation of most translations (KJV, 和合本) and many Greek writers since Origen; Meyer and Bengel
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Held by Some early Latin writers and many modern commentators, who join "He that believeth on me" to the call to drink
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What the lab shows (a drawing choice, not a ruling): The graph draws both as interpretation links from John 7:38, each with its level, and neither as the text's meaning.
Places where manuscripts, ancient versions or translations differ in numbers or wording. KJV and 和合本 are quoted as they stand.
No textual notes. The graph quotes KJV and the 1919 和合本 as they stand; differences between manuscripts are recorded in the labs that depend on them and shown in their own panels.
Type a name, such as Abraham or Jerusalem, or tap one on the map. It moves to the centre, and everything linked to it is grouped around it: family, the places and events it belongs to, the verses that mention it and the labs that show it. Tap any of those to make it the centre and keep following the thread.
A network of things and the links between them. Here the things are people, places, events, objects, Hebrew and Greek words, Bible passages, claims with their evidence and the lab views that show them; each link says how two of them are related.
From the Bible Labs themselves: every node is read from a lab's own data, and every lab link opens that lab exactly where the node is shown. Place ids come from Pleiades and OpenBible.info, and family relations from Theographic Bible Metadata.
Each claim carries an evidence level: stated in the text, strongly supported, plausible, speculative or artistic. Links that read one passage in the light of another are drawn dashed and labelled as interpretation, with their own level; the explorer never gives a verdict between readings.
Yes. Start from the person, place or verse you are studying, follow the branches, and share the link: the address keeps the node you are looking at. The details panel quotes the verses and links to the labs you can show the group.
No. It holds about 6,000 nodes, read from the labs' own data: the people of the family tree, the places on the lab maps, the events, objects and claims the labs show, and the verses they cite. A name that no lab covers yet will not be found; the graph grows as the labs do.
Scripture is quoted only from KJV and the 1919 和合本. Other works are cited for facts and arguments, not quoted at length.
What’s new · v1.1.1Version 1.1.1: English Scripture is now quoted from the King James Version (1769).