Start from a verse

Most of our labs start from a place or an object. These journeys start from the words. You read one verse, then open its doors in order: when it happened, where, the space it happened in, the background that explains it, and the ways it has been read. Every door says how sure we can be, and leads into the lab where you can see it.

Verse journeys

• John 7:375 doorsIn 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. …On the last day of the feast Jesus cried out in the temple. Open five doors: when, where, the courts, the water and lamps, and how the words are read.Open the first door
• Luke 2:74 doorsAnd she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.A manger, a guest room and no innkeeper: what Luke actually says about the night Jesus was born.Open the first door
• Matthew 2:14 doorsNow when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,Strangers from the east, a worried king and a star: what Matthew says, and what later tradition added.Open the first door
• John 2:194 doorsJesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.A temple forty-six years in the building, and a saying about three days: the scene in the temple courts.Open the first door
• Mark 11:154 doorsAnd they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;Overturned tables in the temple's busiest court: the day, the place and the coins of Mark 11.Open the first door
• Genesis 6:154 doorsAnd this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.Three numbers and a vessel the size of a ship: what Genesis fixes about the ark, and what it leaves open.Open the first door
• Exodus 14:214 doorsAnd Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.A strong east wind all night, and a dry path through the sea: where it happened, and what the text says.Open the first door
• Exodus 25:84 doorsAnd let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.God asks for a tent in the middle of the camp: Sinai, the Tabernacle and the pattern shown to Moses.Open the first door
• 1 Kings 6:14 doorsAnd it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.The Bible's best-known date line: 480 years from the exodus to the Temple, and how readers count them.Open the first door
• 2 Kings 20:204 doorsAnd the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?A tunnel through the rock to bring the Gihon spring into Jerusalem: the text, the inscription and the dating.Open the first door
• Acts 19:294 doorsAnd the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.A silversmiths' protest that filled a theatre: Ephesus, Artemis and Paul's companions in danger.Open the first door

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