Bible

Reading the Bible in the languages it was written in, with the original text set beside a fresh English translation, verse by verse. The aim is to make the source text approachable even without the languages — you can follow the English and glance across to see where each phrase comes from. It is a personal study rather than a finished edition. Alongside the books, thematic studies read across them — the parables of Jesus, the mechanism of the cross, grace and the will, a timeline of biblical history, a who’s-who of its main characters, and the people who carried and shaped the early church.

• Old Testament

  The Old Testament in the original Hebrew — the vowel-pointed Masoretic text — set beside the public-domain JPS 1917 English translation of each verse. All thirty-nine books, from Genesis to Malachi.

• New Testament

  All twenty-seven books of the New Testament in their original Koine Greek, set beside an English translation of each verse — from Matthew to Revelation.

• Parables of Jesus

  Every parable Jesus told, gathered from the four Gospels and explained one by one — the story, where it is found, and what it means, grouped by theme from the Sower to the Sheep and the Goats.

• Bible timeline

  The sweep of biblical history era by era — from creation and the patriarchs through the Exodus, the kingdoms, exile and return, to Jesus and the early church — with approximate dates.

• Bible characters

  A who’s-who of scripture — the major figures of the Old and New Testaments, from Adam and Abraham to Moses, David, the prophets, Jesus and the apostles, each introduced in brief.

• The Cross

  The mechanism of the cross explained in detail — how the New Testament says the death of Jesus actually works: sacrifice and blood, substitution, propitiation, redemption, reconciliation, justification, victory over the powers, and union with Christ.

• Grace and the Will

  The long debate over how salvation is applied and what part the human will plays — Pelagius and Augustine, the Council of Orange, Luther and Calvin’s monergism, Arminius, Dort and Wesley, the Eastern synergy, and Rome’s settlement at Trent.

• Martyrs

  A table of Christian martyrs through history — who they were, when and where they died, how they were killed and what they died for — from Stephen and the apostles in the New Testament, through the Roman persecutions and the Reformation, to the missionary age and the present day.

• The early church

  A who’s-who from the apostolic fathers to Gregory the Great and the early medieval West — apologists, the great theologians and councils, and the teachers later judged heterodox like Marcion, Montanus and Arius, for a fair picture rather than one narrative.