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Jesus Christ.

Read his words. Walk his life. Examine the witnesses. Open the Scriptures that tell the story.

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The text itself.

Read it, search it, or follow a subject through it. Hosted texts identify their source edition and license and link each passage back to its place.

ReadBegin with John 1The opening words, one chapter away.BrowseFind a bookEvery hosted book and tradition.SearchSearch ScriptureExact-word WEB search and direct reference lookup.StudyExplore topicsFollow linked subjects back into the text.

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Walks through the record.

If you don’t know where to begin, begin here. Each one is a short sequence of things already on this site, in an order that makes sense.

  1. The last week

    Mark's account of the final days, then the same events on the map and the record of what followed.

    1. Mark 11-13He enters Jerusalem and clears the temple.
    2. Mark 14The supper, the arrest, the trial by night.
    3. Mark 15The crucifixion, told with almost no commentary.
    4. Mark 16The empty tomb — and an ending the manuscripts disagree about.
    5. The life mapThe same week, placed where it happened.
    6. After the crossEvery resurrection appearance, and where the accounts differ.

  2. In his own words

    Start with what he actually said, then follow one saying down to the Greek and out to its parallels.

    1. His wordsEvery verse in which he speaks, book by book.
    2. Matthew 5-7The Sermon on the Mount opens.
    3. Luke 15Three parables about what was lost.
    4. John 14-17The last long conversation before the arrest.
    5. Follow a subjectWhere a theme runs through the rest of the text.

  3. The first generation after

    What the people who came immediately next actually wrote, in their own words.

    1. The DidacheThe oldest church manual: baptism, the meal, how to spot a fraud.
    2. 1 ClementRome writes to a divided Corinth, within living memory of the apostles.
    3. Ignatius — To the RomansA bishop on the road to execution, begging Rome not to save him.
    4. The Martyrdom of PolycarpThe earliest martyrdom account outside the New Testament.
    5. The whole shelfTwenty-three texts, dated and sourced.
    6. What became of the churchHow one movement became many.

  4. How we know any of it

    The evidence and its limits — what the sources support, what they don't, and where scholars disagree.

    1. How we knowThe method, and every graded claim on the site.
    2. Outside the GospelsWhat non-Christian writers recorded, and how early.
    3. The twelveWhat is known about each, weighted by how early the source is.
    4. Who owns the wordWho holds the rights to the translations you read.

  5. Where the story starts

    The beginning the rest of the record keeps returning to, and the passage the first Christians read as a description of the cross.

    1. Genesis 1-2The world made, and called good.
    2. Genesis 3What went wrong, and the first promise after it.
    3. The fallEvery text the tradition assembles into that story, graded.
    4. Isaiah 53The suffering servant — quoted more than almost any other passage.
    5. Prophecy and fulfilmentThe pairs, with the wording on both sides.

Follow the record

What happened next.

The men he sent, the generations that wrote after them, and the church that carried the story forward.

  1. Jesus ChristHis words, his life on the map, prophecy and fulfillment, the record in ink and stone.
  2. ScripturesHosted public-domain Scripture across five traditions, with cross-references, topics, and exact-word search.
  3. The ApostlesThe twelve he chose — who each man was, where his road went, and what it cost him.
  4. The WritingsEverything the early church read outside the canon — the texts whole, grouped by era, their stories drawn.
  5. The ChurchFrom the upper room to today — every step, every fork, and who held the power.
  6. Who Owns the Word?Modern translations are owned. The facts, the fences, and the ones given free.
  7. Angels & DemonsThe unseen order, the fall traced text by text, and collected encounters with angels and demons.
  8. How We KnowFollow a claim from source to observation, inference, interpretation, and limit.