Watch — Getting Started
Short illuminated walkthroughs — how to use The Hyperlinked Bible, step by step. Watch in order, or jump to what you need.
1. The Road to Emmaus — Why This Exists
Start with the why. On the first Easter the risen Christ walked two disciples through all the Scriptures and showed them Himself (Luke 24:27). The Bible as one connected web of light, every thread bending toward Christ — and beholding Him, we are changed.
2. The Two-Minute Tour
Two minutes through the whole site: the three doors on the front page (Read · Follow · Learn), the one Library, and the three moves that unlock everything — switch the lens, follow a highlight, open the wider web.
3. Finding Your Way
How to find anything: search that forgives spelling (Isaak finds Isaac), "what is…" questions answered, the full results page, breadcrumbs back to the Library, a page for every book of the Bible, and the Glossary for any term you don't know.
4. Reading Scripture — Colours, Crosses & How to Read a Chapter
How to actually read a chapter here, slowly, the way it's built to be read: the coloured, underlined phrases (red = quotation, blue = allusion, green = echo), the † crosses that point forward to Christ, hover-to-preview, and Reader's Mode.
5. One Passage, Five Views
The heart of the site: one passage, five lenses — The Bible, Threads, the Interlinear, the Septuagint, and the Treasury of cross-references. The Hebrew and Greek word-cards each link to the Lexicon, so no Hebrew or Greek is needed.
6. The Wider Web
Every verse sits inside a web of connections. Follow one all the way in — Romans 16:20 to Genesis 3:15 — onto the Intertextuality Pair page: the Later text and the Earlier text side by side, the Reference Type, the Connection Method, where it was Found via, and the Significance; then the grouped "In the wider web" census of a whole chapter.
7. The Graph View
The signature feature: the constellation Graph View. Gold star-nodes for verses, type-coloured connectors, expand to full screen, and a clickable legend filter that reshapes the graph live.
8. Following a Thread to Christ
Trace a thread from the Old Testament to Christ with the curated instruments: Trajectory Tables, Longitudinal Themes, Anchor-Text Networks, Chiasms, and the Foundation Texts behind them.
9. The Difference Between a Trajectory Table and a Longitudinal Theme
Now that you've met the instruments, here's how two of them differ — a Trajectory Table (zoom in on one node, up to Christ) versus a Longitudinal Theme (zoom out across many nodes, one motif) — using the Bronze Serpent and Holiness as the worked examples.
10. The Difference Between a Trajectory Table and an Anchor Text Network
Its companion — the other pair: a Trajectory Table (tracks a subject across Scripture — nameable in three words) versus an Anchor-Text Network (tracks a text across Scripture — you can only name it by its reference) — using Melchizedek and the Psalm 110 network, which meet at Psalm 110:4, as the worked example. You need both lenses; neither alone sees the whole.