Scripture Links
Enter a reference to see what it quotes, what quotes it, and what it echoes. Every connection here was derived from the biblical texts themselves rather than copied from a cross-reference list — so each one comes with the method that established it, how strongly, and the words the two verses actually share, highlighted in the original Greek or Hebrew.
That last part is the point. A cross-reference list tells you two verses are connected. This shows you what the claim rests on.
Four ways in
- Look up a verse. Type a verse or a whole chapter, with the book written in full or abbreviated. Every connection lists the shared wording, and each verse it names opens in turn, so you can follow a quotation from the New Testament back to its source and onward. A diagram beside the results draws the verse and its neighbours, quoting verses on the left and quoted verses on the right.
- Map of the books. Every book on a ring, a curve wherever one quotes or echoes another. Select a book to light its curves and list its links. Flip the scope to Old Testament parallels and the ring shows Kings and Chronicles, Samuel and the Chronicler, and the Pentateuch's repeated laws answering each other.
- Book by book. The same links as a table of exact counts, for when you want to know how many times Luke draws on Isaiah.
- The evidence. How many links rest on each kind of evidence, how many of those no reference list carries, and the verses the rest of Scripture comes back to most. Below that, each rule's record: how often an outside list confirms it, what it finds that no other rule does, where the rules agree, and every quotation in the answer keys that all of them miss, each one a verse you can open.
On the map, the table and the evidence, Only links no reference list carries narrows every diagram to the connections this method found and the inherited lists did not.
Every view has an address, so a verse or a diagram can be shared as a link, and the back button retraces the verses you followed. The verse pop-ups that appear on every page of the site add a Scripture links button wherever a verse has something to show here.
All four views are drawn from one data file. When the links are re-derived, the diagrams, the counts and the pop-up buttons follow without anyone redrawing them.
Try Hebrews 10:5
It quotes Psalm 40 — but open an English Bible at Psalm 40:6 and you read "you have opened my ears", which is not what Hebrews says at all. The Greek shows why: the New Testament author is quoting the Septuagint, and the Septuagint reads "a body you have prepared for me" where the Hebrew reads "ears". Both verses are shown in Greek, sharing those words exactly.
Then try Revelation 21:20 for an allusion no reference list carries, Matthew 21:5 for a verse drawing on two passages at once, and Matthew 26:64 for one the texts cannot settle but the tradition never lost.
Reading the results
Connections are grouped by how they were established, and never merged into a single relevance score — because they are not the same kind of evidence:
| What it means | |
|---|---|
| Quotation | The same language on both sides, so the quotation is literally the same words. A textual fact. |
| Allusion | No shared phrasing. What the passages share is vocabulary occurring almost nowhere else. |
| Quotation (from the Hebrew) | The Greek of the New Testament matches the Hebrew of the Old, through the vocabulary the Septuagint translators chose. Only where the verse cites Scripture. |
| Candidate | A 19th-century Hebrew New Testament reads this as a quotation. An informed judgement about the text, not evidence from it. |
Each link says which rule found it and how far to trust that rule: the share of links found the same way that an outside cross-reference list confirms. A line reading "94% of links found this way are confirmed" means the rule is reliable; whether this particular link is in a reference list is shown beside it. A reliable rule finding a link no list carries is the case this method exists for. What each rule adds, and where it fails gives each rule's record.
Where a quoted Old Testament verse is one the Dead Sea Scrolls also preserve, any scroll reading the Masoretic text lacks is shown with it, along with how much of that verse survives. A legible word in a torn line is worth less than one in an intact verse, and the display says which you have.
Two kinds of knowing
Some connections can be established from the texts. Others have simply been known.
Matthew 26:64 is the clearest case. Jesus tells the Sanhedrin they will see the Son of Man "seated at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven" — and the high priest tears his robes. He recognised it instantly: Psalm 110:1 and Daniel 7:13, the throne and the Son of Man, claimed together.
This tool derives nothing there. Matthew paraphrases rather than quotes — the verb form changes, "of me" becomes "of Power", "with the clouds" becomes "on the clouds" — until barely three words survive intact from either passage. No amount of text comparison will find it, and lowering the threshold far enough to try would fill the results with coincidence.
But the connection was never lost. It is in the reaction of the man who heard it, and it has been in cross-reference lists ever since. So the tool shows that too, in its own tier, plainly labelled: Daniel 7:13, cited by 25 reference works. Psalm 110:1, cited by 15.
That is the honest shape of the thing. Where the texts can settle a link, you get the shared Greek and can judge it yourself. Where they cannot, you get what readers have long seen, marked as inherited rather than derived — a lead to follow, not evidence from the text. Where both speak, they corroborate each other. And where neither does, the tool says nothing rather than guessing.
Silence here means nothing was found. It is a concordance, not a commentary.