Scrollwork — the whole of Scripture on one canvas

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
John 1:23 · King James Version · verse for 2026-10-03

The whole of Scripture, end to end, on one canvas.

The Holy Bible is one continuous account — four thousand years, from the first day to an empty tomb, told as a single thread. A book can only show it to you one page at a time. Here, all of it is in view at once.

Scroll

What Scrollwork does

The whole account, drawn to be explored — and what comes next.

The Lineage of Jesus Christ from 600 B.C. to A.D. 33: the line of descent through Eliud and Eleazar to Joseph, the husband of Mary, and to Jesus Christ, with the coins of the Nativity, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection beside Him, and above the band Between the Testaments the events and finds of the time; Scrollwarp™ it into one era or any span of years, and the strip of related events and the band of archaeological finds show what the time holds

His line to Jesus Christ, with the Nativity, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection beside Him.

The Lineage of Jesus Christ

Every generation from Adam to Jesus Christ, drawn as one river of descent and laid out on time. Zoom from the whole line to a single life, and open the Nativity, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection where they stand on His line. Scrollwarp™ it into one era or any span of years and the scroll is redrawn for that time alone, showing all it holds, at a link you can share.

A Scrollwarp of the Lineage to the Divided Kingdom, 974 to 597 B.C.: Rehoboam, Jehoshaphat, Uzziah and Jehoiachin on their lines, the Exile coin, and above the era’s ruler the strip of related events and the band of archaeological finds

Key features

  • Scrollwarp™, unique to Scrollwork: redraw the whole scroll for one era or any span of years — Creation to the Flood, the Divided Kingdom, the life of Jesus — and share the view as a link
  • Twelve eras mark the ruler, from Creation to the Flood, through the Patriarchs, Egypt, the Judges and the Kingdoms, to the Exile, the Return and the Life of Jesus Christ — each with its summary and its passages, and where a date is contested (the Exodus, the kingdom’s division, the year of His birth, the year of the Crucifixion) the faithful positions are shown with the scholars who hold them
  • Related events rise above His line in their own band, each at its date: the first promise of the Seed, Sodom destroyed, Samuel anointing David, Hezekiah’s tunnel, Babylon’s fall, Esther, Herod, the Magi and Pontius Pilate — 79 prophecies, events, people and places, each a click from its account
  • Archaeological finds beneath the events, where the stones and scrolls speak beside the text: the Merneptah Stele, the Tel Dan Stele naming the house of David, the Mesha Stele, Hezekiah’s Siloam inscription, the Taylor Prism, the Lachish letters, the silver scrolls of Ketef Hinnom, the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Cyrus Cylinder, the Caiaphas ossuary and the Pilate Stone — in full-colour photographs wherever a free licence allows, each with its museum, its credit and its sources
  • Gold coins on His line open the great accounts — Creation, the Flood, Sinai, David, Ruth, the Exile, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and more — each told station by station in Scripture’s own words, with paintings and the evidence, and every coin yours to move aside as you read
  • The Drawer: choose any name and their whole record opens beside the scroll — every verse they appear in, their family, the places they knew on a map, the paintings of them, and the sources for it all — and up to four people side by side to compare
  • The three pillars in every Drawer: Faith — the verses, His words, the miracles, the commentaries and the cross-references; Evidence — what the stones and the scrolls show; History — family, reign, contemporaries, places and dates. And where faithful scholars differ, an Integrity tab sets out each position with those who hold it
  • Search from anywhere on the scroll: type a name, a place, an event or a verse and be taken straight to it

Open the Lineage Free. You sign in, and it opens.

Stories

Stories you can step into

Gold coins on His line open Scripture’s great accounts — Creation, the Flood, the binding of Isaac, From Passover to Sinai, the Ark of the Covenant, Ruth and Boaz, David, the Exile, the Nativity, John the Baptist, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Holy Spirit — each walked station by station, in Scripture’s own words.

Key features

  • The Gospels side by side: where Matthew, Mark, Luke and John each tell a moment, every account is there, and a Gospel that is silent says so
  • Nine translations at every passage, each named
  • Great paintings by Tissot, Rembrandt, Doré and others, and Scrollwork’s own scenes, every work credited
  • History, Evidence and Integrity beside the accounts: what history records, what the ground has given up, and where faithful scholars differ, each position with those who hold it
  • Every source named
Step into a story
The Resurrection opened from its gold coin: its passages from Matthew 27 to 1 Corinthians 15, a painted scene of the empty tomb with the stone rolled away, and the opening words, from the guard set at the sealed stone to the Ascension on the Mount of Olives

Films

Films of the great moments

The Nativity, the Crucifixion, the veil of the temple torn in two, the empty tomb, Mary at the tomb, and Pentecost: short films of Scrollwork’s own open at the head of their accounts, and stand at their events on the road of Biblical Art.

Key features

  • Six films in the accounts they belong to, and a seventh, Legion and the swine, among the related events
  • Never loud: in an account a film waits for you to press play, and starts muted; on the road they play silently as they pass, and the Films control takes them away
  • Still for those who ask: with reduced motion set, nothing plays on its own
  • Credited plainly: each film is generated, and says so
The Crucifixion opened from its gold coin, its films first: the three crosses on the hill at dusk, then the veil of the temple, each with its play control and its title beneath
Films, generated · © Scrollwork

Scroll

The Story in Gold

Scripture’s great moments struck in gold, from Creation to the empty tomb, laid down the page in order. Touch one, and its story opens beside you.

Key features

  • Thirteen coins by Bible date, from In the beginning to the Holy Spirit
  • Every coin opens its story, in Scripture’s own words
  • The same accounts the lineage opens, read in order from first to last
Open the Story in Gold
The Story in Gold: the coins down the left by Bible date, the Nativity chosen and its account open beside them, Luke 1 to 2 and Matthew 1 to 2, with a painting of the Child in the manger

Art

Biblical Art

551 works on one road, each at the event it depicts, from Creation to the apostles and the church after them — 130 of them Scrollwork’s own. The road glides on its own and holds still while you look.

Key features

  • Only art that may be shown: every work by another hand is public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, and credited to its artist and its holder
  • At the date of its event, never the date it was painted
  • Covered until you choose: a picture that shows violence or nudity waits behind a cover
  • Play, Loop and Full screen, with the films at their events
Walk the road
Biblical Art’s road at Sinai, the Wilderness and the Conquest, about 1491 B.C.: framed works above and below the golden road — the Ten Commandments on the burning mountain, James Tissot’s Moses before the people and his cloud on Mount Sinai, and the covenant confirmed — each stop marked with its era, its year and its passage, Exodus 20 and Exodus 24

Scroll

The Megiddo Mosaic

At Megiddo, excavators uncovered the floor of a Christian prayer hall, laid, by their date, about AD 230. Set into it, Akeptous offered a table “to God Jesus Christ as a memorial”: the earliest known archaeological inscription naming Jesus as God.

Key features

  • The hall drawn whole, its three inscriptions marked on the floor, each named and translated
  • Its place and its story: the village beside the Roman legion, the house that held the hall, and where the mosaic is now
  • The date, plainly: when the floor was laid is disputed, and what it says is not
  • Fifteen sources, named
Visit the hall
The Megiddo Mosaic: the prayer hall at Kefar ‘Othnay drawn from above, its mosaic floor with two fish at the centre and the inscriptions in their panels, a stone table, and men and women standing at prayer around it

Bookshelf

The Bookshelf

Everything Scrollwork holds stands on one shelf: the scrolls and the charts, each with its own illustrated cover. Browse it as a shelf, or lay it all out as a Mosaic, the Lineage largest.

Key features

  • Shelf or Mosaic, and the choice remembered
  • A cover for every work, each a click from the work itself
  • View art opens any cover full size
Open the Bookshelf
The Bookshelf laid out as a Mosaic: illustrated covers in gold, crimson and blue of different sizes, the Lineage’s scroll largest, with the Shelf and Mosaic choice above them

Charts

The whole Bible, charted

See the shape of Scripture at a glance: the sixty-six books as one library, every cross-reference as an arc, the people of the Bible as a living network, and the people and the tribes named most, racing book by book.

Key features

  • The Bible Library: the sixty-six books as one ring, Testament and division around it
  • 141,714 cross-references drawn as arcs between the chapters they join
  • A network of 491 people and 1,560 family ties, each a click from their story
  • The People Race, the Tribes and the Tribe Race: who is named most, and who belonged to which tribe
  • Every chart explains its own rings and colours, built from credited data
Open the Bookshelf
The cross-references chart: 141,714 arcs between the 1,189 chapters of the Bible, coloured from violet to green, the books named along its foot

Data

The Bible as data, not a picture of it

An engraved chart can only show what was engraved. Scrollwork holds the account itself — 3,067 people, 1,274 places, 450 dated events and all 31,102 verses in nine translations, each joined to the rest — so one account can be drawn as a lineage, a library, a network or a race, and as views not yet made.

Key features

  • Every fact traced to its source and its licence
  • Every person joined to their family, their verses and their dates
  • Contested dates kept honest: each position held with the scholars who hold it, never flattened into one
Read the method
When was the Exodus? The scroll’s own date and the early and late dates, each position with its holder, its tier and its sources, over the lineage’s era band

Evidence

Faith, Evidence and History

Every person and book carries three pillars — what the faith holds, what the evidence shows, what history records. Dates, authors and finds come with their sources, and where faithful scholars differ, each position stands with the people who hold it.

Key features

  • Evidence named as evidence: the stones, the scrolls and the inscriptions, each with its museum and its sources
  • No verdict slipped in — the reader weighs it
  • Where the record is silent, the page says so
The people network: people joined by the verses that name them together

ComingCompanion

Henrichsen Bible Study Methods

Organise and lead Bible studies by Walter Henrichsen’s method — on your own or as a group gathered online — with the whole of Scrollwork open beside every passage you study.

Key features

  • Full integration with Scrollwork: every passage you study opens beside the lineage, the charts and the Bible reader
  • Start free: one or two of the method’s studies at no cost
  • The rest by a small monthly subscription
  • One account: a companion with its own page and its own price, mentioned where it helps and never pushed at you
People of different ages studying an open Bible together at an evening table, each with a notebook, and a small group joining on a laptopView full screen
Illustration · © Scrollwork

ComingMaps

Biblical and Historical Maps

Maps come to the Bookshelf as a new kind of artifact: the Holy Land and the ancient world, drawn from the places Scrollwork already knows.

Key features

  • An interactive Holy Land map, beside the scrolls and the charts
  • Built on the 1,274 places already in Scrollwork, the same places search finds today
A first sketch of a map: the Mediterranean and the Near East on Natural Earth’s land (public domain), engraved in walnut and gold, every place in Scrollwork that has coordinates a maroon dot, thickest in the Holy Land
Scrollwork’s places on Natural Earth · a first sketch · land from Natural Earth, public domain

Also coming: a choice of chronologies for the whole scroll, redrawn for each; Prophecies; devotional features; the Bible clock, Bible and world history on one circle; a 3D people network; a prompt that hands a study to your own AI; and companions, each its own product with its own price — after the Henrichsen study companion, the Scroll of the Ages, the whole of Biblical and world history on one great synchronological chart, and tools for deeper study.

Study

The Study Reader

The whole Bible in a reader made for study: nine translations, side by side when you want them, the Hebrew and Greek behind every word, and room in the margin for your own notes.

  • Nine translations, switched in place, and two to four side by side, verse beside verse
  • An interlinear in three views — forward, reverse and inline — every word with its original, its transliteration, its Strong’s number and its grammar
  • Every occurrence of a word, a click from its Strong’s number
  • The verse menu: touch a word and its study tools open — the interlinear, the concordance, a comparison of translations, cross-references, copy and share
  • The words of Christ in red, in the King James Version
  • Margin notes, highlights and bookmarks, gathered in notebooks you can export, print or back up
  • Your own marks shown on The Lineage of Jesus Christ
  • Private by design: your notes and highlights are kept on your device for now, move between devices with a backup, and sync with your account once accounts arrive

Open ScrollworkThe reader is in the Study menu.How we compare

John 1 in the interlinear, forward view: each Greek word of the SBLGNT with its English gloss above, its transliteration, its Strong’s number and its grammar code beneath, verse by verse
The interlinear, forward: John 1 in Greek, word by word.

How we compare

Scrollwork’s Study Reader beside Blue Letter Bible and Logos. Checked 2 October 2026.

Where they lead: Blue Letter Bible and Logos carry licensed lexicons and commentaries, many more translations, audio Bibles and native apps, and Logos sells a large library besides. Scrollwork's reader is new, built on open and public-domain sources, and it sets each verse in the Bible's history.

FeatureScrollworkBlue Letter BibleLogos
Reading
The whole Bible, chapter by chapterChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: using the site (30 Sep 2026), Logos: features (2 Oct 2026)YesEvery chapter, each verse exactly as held and named by its translationYesEvery chapter, with tools on each verseYesEvery Bible in your library, on desktop, web and phone
TranslationsChecked at Blue Letter Bible on the App Store (2 Oct 2026), Logos: Bibles (2 Oct 2026)PartlyNine public-domain English translations; no modern licensed ones such as the NIV or ESVYesOver 30 versions, in several languagesYesThe modern translations, most bought singly or in bundles
Translations side by sideChecked at Blue Letter Bible on the App Store (2 Oct 2026), Logos: Bibles (2 Oct 2026)YesTwo to four columns, verse beside verseYesVersions read side by sideYesCompares any number of translations
Audio BibleChecked at Blue Letter Bible on the App Store (2 Oct 2026), Blue Letter Bible help: audio (30 Sep 2026), Logos: features (2 Oct 2026)NoNot yet; planned after the first releaseYesNarrated and dramatized Bibles, and audio commentariesYesAudio Bibles, sold in its shop
Apps and offline readingChecked at Blue Letter Bible on the App Store (2 Oct 2026), Logos: frequently asked questions (2 Oct 2026)NoRuns in the web browser; no native app and no offline modeYesiOS and Android apps; versions download for offline readingYesDesktop, web and mobile apps; books you own read offline
Original languages
InterlinearChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: the interlinear (30 Sep 2026), Logos: Bibles (2 Oct 2026)YesForward, reverse and inline, each word with its original, Strong's number and grammarYesEach verse's words with Strong's numbers and the Hebrew or GreekYesReverse interlinears, sold for many translations
The grammar of each wordChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: the interlinear (30 Sep 2026), Logos wiki: visual filters and morphology (30 Sep 2026)YesEach morphology code spelled out in wordsYesTense, voice and mood in the interlinearYesSearch by lemma and by parsing
LexiconsChecked at Blue Letter Bible lexicon: G26 (30 Sep 2026), Logos forums: the Bible Sense Lexicon (30 Sep 2026)PartlyStrong's dictionary and STEPBible's brief lexicon, both open; no licensed lexiconsYesStrong's, Thayer's, Gesenius and more, some licensedYesLicensed lexicons, and its own Bible Sense Lexicon
Every occurrence of a wordChecked at Blue Letter Bible lexicon: G26 (30 Sep 2026), Logos tour: the Bible Word Study (30 Sep 2026)YesGrouped by book, with the King James renderings and their countsYesEvery verse a word occurs in, with King James countsYesThe Bible Word Study: renderings, senses and counts
Study tools
Cross-referencesChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (30 Sep 2026), Logos wiki: guides (30 Sep 2026)YesOn every verse, from OpenBible.info's open dataYesThe Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, by phraseYesIn the Passage Guide
CommentariesChecked at Blue Letter Bible for Android (2 Oct 2026), Logos tour: commentaries (30 Sep 2026)PartlyMatthew Henry's whole commentary, one classic; more after the first releaseYesOver 8,000 by over 40 authors, classic and modernYesMany, most bought for your library
A guide to the passageChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: using the site (30 Sep 2026), Logos wiki: guides (30 Sep 2026)YesThe Passage Guide: cross-references, Matthew Henry, its people, places and art, and your notesPartlyTool tabs on each verse rather than one guideYesThe Passage Guide gathers your library on a passage
Bible dictionariesChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: dictionaries (30 Sep 2026), Logos Basic (2 Oct 2026)PartlyEaston's on each book, in the Bible Library chart; not yet in the readerYesEaston's, Smith's, the ISBE, Nave's, Torrey's and moreYesDictionaries, even in the free edition
Search the Bible's textChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: searching the Bible (30 Sep 2026), Logos: features (2 Oct 2026)PartlyFinds verses by reference, and people, places, events and books by name; not words in the textYesWords, phrases, Boolean searches and wildcardsYesSmart Search in Bibles
Your study
Notes and notebooksChecked at Blue Letter Bible for Android (2 Oct 2026), Logos: frequently asked questions (2 Oct 2026)YesIn the margin or inline, kept in notebooks; export, print or back upYesNotes organised into notebooks, in the appYesNotes, kept with your account
HighlightsChecked at Blue Letter Bible for Android (2 Oct 2026), Logos: frequently asked questions (2 Oct 2026)YesInks and underlines you name and manage; bookmarks in folders tooYesHighlights in custom colours; verses kept in foldersYesHighlighting, on desktop and phone
Across your devicesChecked at Blue Letter Bible on the App Store (2 Oct 2026), Logos: frequently asked questions (2 Oct 2026)PartlyKept on your device for now; a backup moves them between devices; they sync once accounts arrivePartlyThe app backs up to iCloud; syncing notes between devices is not stated on its pagesYesNotes and highlights sync across devices when online
Scrollwork's own
A verse's place in Bible historyChecked at Blue Letter Bible help: using the site (30 Sep 2026), Logos: features (2 Oct 2026)YesIts people, places and events, each opening on the Lineage or the people networkNoNot among the tools on the pages readPartlyThe Factbook gathers people, places and events
Your notes on the timelineChecked at Blue Letter Bible for Android (2 Oct 2026), Logos: features (2 Oct 2026)YesYour notes and highlights marked on the Lineage; a notebook read in time orderNoNot among the features on the pages readNoNot among the features on the pages read
Price
Free to useChecked at Blue Letter Bible on the App Store (2 Oct 2026), Logos Basic (2 Oct 2026), Logos: frequently asked questions (2 Oct 2026)YesFree, with a free account; no advertisingYesFree, on the web and in its appsPartlyLogos Basic is free; feature subscriptions and libraries are paid

Each row was checked against Blue Letter Bible’s and Logos’s own pages and store listings, linked beneath it with the day each was read. Scrollwork claims only what its reader does today. The table is Scrollwork’s own, made without either of them.

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Everything on this page not marked Coming is free to use today, with a free account: the scrolls, the stories, the art, the charts, search and the Study Reader.

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IIThe thread

One people, one promise, one unbroken line.

From Adam to Christ the account never actually breaks. Names hand to names, a covenant is made and kept, and a single line of descent carries the whole way through.

We meet it in pieces. A chapter on a Sunday, a verse on a card, a note in a margin. The thread holds — but the connections between its parts end up living in the reader's memory, or nowhere at all.

Methuselah was still living when Noah was born. Almost no one reading Genesis notices.

IIIDrawn before

People have wanted to see it whole for a long time.

In 1871 Sebastian Adams engraved twenty-three feet of history onto a single sheet so that a reader could stand in front of it and see what was simultaneous. Kingdoms drawn as rivers that widen, divide and run dry. Families as lines you could follow with a finger. People still hang it on walls, and they are right to.

An engraving holds one answer beautifully. Scrollwork begins where the engraving ends: the same account held as data, so the surface can be asked again — re-dated, re-sorted, re-drawn — and so a reader can put a question to it that nobody thought to engrave.

IVThe surface

One canvas, read all the way down.

You scroll it like a map and you descend through it. Each level answers the one above, and nothing sends you to another page to find out.

  • Erawhere you stand in the whole account
  • Figurewho was alive, and whom they outlived
  • Eventwhat happened, and what happened elsewhere
  • Passagethe text it is drawn from
  • Wordthe original term, everywhere it appears

VThree pillars

Faith, Evidence and History, on the same object.

Faith
what is held
Evidence
what is found
History
what is recorded

Open a passage and all three stand beside it: what the Church has held, what the ground has given up, and what the surrounding world was recording at the time.

Faith leads, and is the only one of the three with something to say everywhere. The other two are given exactly the room the record gives them — and where a pillar has nothing, it says so rather than reaching.

All three in front of you at once, with no verdict attached.

VIChronology

The date is a setting, not a fact.

Two careful scholars can place the Exodus three centuries apart. Both belong on the canvas.

Every timeline picks a chronology and draws it as certainty. The choice is usually invisible and it is doing enormous work — move the Exodus and everything around it moves with it.

Here the choice is shown, not hidden. On the lineage the kings’ reigns are drawn to Thiele’s chronology or to Ussher’s, at a click; and every contested date — the Exodus, the kingdom’s division, the year of His birth — carries each faithful position with the scholars who hold it. A choice of chronologies for the whole scroll, redrawn for each, is coming.

VIIHonesty

It will tell you when it does not know.

Where a claim can be tested, you are shown the test — the thing that would prove it wrong — and not only the conclusion. Where a claim is of a different kind, and no material test applies, that is said plainly, because measuring a matter of faith with the wrong instrument is its own kind of dishonesty.

Every source is checked against an external authority before it ships. One that cannot be confirmed is dropped rather than printed with a caveat, and positions are attributed to the people who hold them.

Where the record is silent, so is the page. It presents; it does not adjudicate. What you conclude is yours.

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  • Every verse names its translation
  • Your study notes are kept on your device for now, move between devices with a backup, and sync once accounts arrive

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