Scrollwork — the whole of Scripture on one canvas

Welcome, everyone.

Our family invites you to read, study and learn the Bible, and to grow in your faith and in your walk with Jesus Christ.

We live with Christ by living in His Word. Through faith we follow Him and walk in His light. Jesus Christ, God’s Son, became a man, died for our sins and rose from the dead, so that we may live with Him forever. He invites you to turn to Him and trust Him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16 · King James Version

New to the Bible? Begin with the Gospel of John, and meet Jesus in His own words and works.

What Scrollwork does

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

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 its button on the scroll: the Bible’s words, its topics or a question by meaning, as well as a name, a place, an event or a verse, each result taking you straight to it

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

Everything on the shelf today

The Lineage of Jesus Christ
Every generation from Adam to Jesus Christ, laid out on time as one scroll.
Stories in gold
Gold coins on His line open Scripture’s great accounts, station by station.
Films of the great moments
Short films of Scrollwork’s own, from the manger to Pentecost.
The Story in Gold
The great moments struck in gold, from Creation to the empty tomb.
Biblical Art
551 works on one road, each at the event it paints.
The Megiddo Mosaic
A prayer hall’s floor, about AD 230, offered to God Jesus Christ.
The Study Reader
Nine translations, the original words, and your notes in the margin.
The Bookshelf
Every scroll and chart on one shelf, or laid out as a mosaic.
Search
The words, the topics or the meaning, filtered by when it happened and who speaks.
Six charts
The library, every cross-reference, the people and the tribes.
The Bible as data
3,067 people, 1,274 places and 450 dated events, joined to the text.
Faith, Evidence and History
Three pillars on every person and book, each with its sources.

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

Search the whole Bible by word, by topic or by meaning

Press the Search button, or ⌘K, on the lineage, the charts, the Story in Gold, Biblical Art or the Study Reader, and one window answers three ways at once: the exact words, the topics they belong to, and, when you ask, passages related in meaning. Then narrow it as only Scrollwork can — by when it happened, who speaks, who and where is named, and what sits beside each verse.

Search in the Study Reader

The search dialog over the Study Reader with living water typed: seven verses in the King James Version under Exact words, each with its year and era and its matches marked, Read and On the lineage beneath each; beside them the filters with their counts — translation, testament, the kind of writing, book, when it happened and who speaks; above, Search by meaning, the sort, Charts, Copy all and Share link

What it finds

Words and exact phrases in any of the nine translations, with AND, OR and NOT and wildcards
Hebrew and Greek by Strong’s number, lemma, transliteration or part of speech
Topics from Nave’s Topical Bible and OpenBible.info, each credited
Search by meaning: ask in your own words and, at one click, live AI finds the passages related in meaning; a question is pinned first, and past the day’s free limit words and topics still answer
People, places, events, books and verses however you type them — Gen 7:11, jn3.16, a range — forgiving of spelling and accents, and other names found (Rachab finds Rahab)

Filters only Scrollwork has

When it happened: a span of years or an era, and the results sorted by time as well as in the Bible’s order
The words of Jesus, the verses the King James marks in red
People and places named in the verse, combined as you like, and events
What sits beside a verse: art, a Matthew Henry comment, an archaeological find, a person on the lineage
My study: only the verses you have noted, highlighted or bookmarked
And testament, book, a range of your own, the kind of writing and translation — every choice with its count

See it and share it

Charts: the hits by book and across time
A shared link opens your search, filters and all
Copy all: every result, each with its reference and translation
Taken there: a verse opens in the reader with its words marked, or on the lineage; a person, place or event opens where it stands

Private by design: word, topic and filter searches never leave your device. Only a question you send to search by meaning does, to the AI service Scrollwork uses for that one search, and neither Scrollwork nor the AI keeps it. How search keeps your privacy

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 laptop — 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.

The verse menu, on a word of John 3:16.
Two translations, side by side.
Highlights, and a note in the margin.

How we compare

Scrollwork’s Study Reader beside Blue Letter Bible and Logos. Checked 3 October 2026.

Where they lead: Blue Letter Bible and Logos carry licensed lexicons and commentaries, many more translations, audio Bibles and native apps, read offline, and can be read without an account; 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.

Feature	Scrollwork	Blue Letter Bible	Logos
Reading
The whole Bible, chapter by chapter	YesEvery chapter, each verse exactly as held and named by its translation	YesEvery chapter, with tools on each verse	YesEvery Bible in your library, on desktop, web and phone
Translations	PartlyNine public-domain English translations; no modern licensed ones such as the NIV or ESV	YesOver 30 versions, in several languages	YesThe modern translations, most bought singly or in bundles
Modern licensed translations, such as the NIV or ESV	NoNot yet; public-domain translations only	YesThe NIV, ESV, NASB and others among its versions	YesSold singly, such as the ESV
Up to four translations side by side, verse level with verse	YesTwo to four columns, row by row	PartlyTwo at a time	YesCompares any number of translations
Flip a column between two translations	YesTwo translations in a column's header, one flip between them, the place kept	NoA drop-down changes each pane's version; no flip between two	YesThe arrow keys cycle the open Bible through its parallel Bibles at the same place
The text in up to four columns, like a printed page	YesOne translation flowed in one to four columns, as the screen allows	NoNo such layout among the options on the pages read	YesPaged View lays the text out in columns, as a paper book
Two different passages side by side	YesSplit: a second passage beside the first	NoNo such view in its help or manuals	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
A keyboard shortcuts sheet	YesPress ? for every shortcut	NoNone in its help or video tutorials	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Focus mode, every control hidden	YesEvery control hidden until you move	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Paper themes and text size	YesText size, spacing, typeface and paper themes	YesThemes and font size in the apps; font size on the web	YesFont size and white, sepia or dark themes
Reading plans	NoNot yet; planned after the first release	YesEight plans, with a reading meter	YesFor all users, progress kept
Reading history	YesThe chapters you read, kept on your device	PartlyIn the apps only; none on the website	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
How much of the Bible you have read	YesMy Progress: the books you have read	PartlyA reading plan's meter only	PartlyA reading plan's progress only
Audio Bible	NoNot yet; planned after the first release	YesNarrated and dramatized Bibles, and audio commentaries	YesAudio Bibles, sold in its shop
Original languages
Interlinear	YesEach word with its original, Strong's number and grammar	YesEach verse's words with Strong's numbers, and an inline interlinear of a chapter	YesReverse interlinears, sold for many translations
The Hebrew and Greek read as a text	YesAlone or beside a translation	YesThe WLC, LXX, mGNT and TR among its versions	YesIn Logos Plus, a paid plan; the free edition not stated
Strong's numbers over the King James words	YesA toggle, on the web and a phone	YesOn the website; not yet in its iPhone and iPad apps	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Interlinear on a phone	YesThe interlinear in the phone's own form	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	NoIts phone app shows no original language inline
The grammar of each word	YesEach morphology code spelled out in words	YesTense, voice and mood in the interlinear	YesSearch by lemma and by parsing
Lexicons	PartlyStrong's dictionary and STEPBible's brief lexicon, both open; no licensed lexicons	YesStrong's, Thayer's, Gesenius and more, some licensed	YesLicensed lexicons, and its own Bible Sense Lexicon
Every occurrence of a word	YesGrouped by book, with the King James renderings and their counts	YesEvery verse a word occurs in, with King James counts	YesThe Bible Word Study: renderings, senses and counts
Study tools
Cross-references	YesOn 30,496 verses: OpenBible.info's set by votes, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, then the verses that refer to each; each names its source	YesThe Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, with about 100,000 more references added	YesIn the Passage Guide
Commentaries	PartlyMatthew Henry's whole commentary, one classic; more after the first release	YesOver 8,000 by over 40 authors, classic and modern	YesMany, most bought for your library
A guide to the passage	YesThe Passage Guide: cross-references, Matthew Henry, its people, places and art, and your notes	PartlyTool tabs on each verse rather than one guide	YesThe Passage Guide gathers your library on a passage
Bible dictionaries	PartlyEaston's on each book, in the Bible Library chart; not yet in the reader	YesEaston's, Smith's, the ISBE, Nave's, Torrey's and more	YesDictionaries, even in the free edition
Search the Bible's text	YesWords and phrases with AND, OR, NOT and wildcards, by translation, testament, book, a custom range or the kind of writing	YesWords, phrases, Boolean searches and wildcards	YesSmart Search in Bibles
Search the original languages	YesHebrew and Greek by Strong's number, lemma, transliteration or part of speech	PartlyBy Strong's number; a word's part of speech is shown in its lexicon, not searched	YesMorph Search by grammatical form, in Logos Max or the former Bronze and above
Topics	YesNave's Topical Bible and OpenBible.info's topics, each credited	YesNave's and Torrey's topical, in its dictionary search	Yestopic: searches, the Topic Guide and the Factbook
Search by meaning	YesAsk in your own words; at one click the AI service Scrollwork uses finds related passages, within a daily limit	NoNot among the searches its help describes	YesSmart Search answers a question; a subscription, beyond a few free tries
Who speaks	YesThe words of Jesus: the verses the King James marks in red	NoThe words of Christ in red are a display setting, not a search filter	Yesspeaker:Jesus, from its speaker labels
People, places and events in a search	YesFilter by the people and places a verse names, combined, or by an event	NoNot among the search options its help describes	YesPerson:, place and event: searches
Search results charted	YesThe hits by book and across time	PartlyCounts by version and results by book; no chart	YesThe Charts tool graphs hits by book or chapter
A search shared and copied	YesA link carrying the words and filters; Copy all, each verse with its reference and translation	YesResults at their own address; select all and copy	YesCopy Location makes a link; results copied from Print/Export on the desktop
Search runs on your device, your words never sent	YesWords, topics and filters searched on your device	NoIts search is a page on its server	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Your study
Notes	YesYour notes on any verse	PartlyIn its apps only, a chapter at a time; none on the website	YesNotes, kept with your account
Notes in the margin, beside the verse	YesYour notes in the margin, beside their verses	NoChapter notes in a notepad, not a margin	Not confirmedNotes open in a Notes panel; a margin column not shown on its pages
A note set at a word in the text	YesA note opened in the text at its word	NoNotes are kept by chapter	YesA note anchored to a word, shown as an icon beside it
Notebooks	YesNotes kept in notebooks	PartlyIn its Android app	YesNotebooks group your notes
Export your notes	YesAs a file you keep	PartlyBy email from its iPhone app	YesPrint and export, on the desktop only
Print your notes	YesIn the browser, on any computer	NoNothing of it on its pages	YesOn the desktop only
Back up and restore to a file	YesA backup file, and a reminder to make one	YesTo iCloud from its iPhone app; backup and restore on Android	Not confirmedNotes live in the account; a file backup not shown on its pages
Highlights	YesInks you name and manage	YesSeven colours you can rename, in its apps; none on the website	YesRicher: your own styles, with glow, borders, images and labels
Underlines	YesSingle and double	YesHighlight and underline, in its apps	YesEmphasis markup among its styles
A highlight opens to every verse it marks	YesEach ink opens to every verse in it	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Bookmarks in folders, managed in bulk	YesFolders, search and moving many at once	PartlyFolders in its Android app; managing many at once not shown	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Across your devices	Coming soonKept on your device for now; a backup moves them between devices; they sync once accounts arrive	PartlyThe app backs up to iCloud; syncing notes between devices is not stated on its pages	YesNotes and highlights sync across devices when online
Search your own study	YesOnly the verses you noted, highlighted or bookmarked, read on your device	NoIts Bible search covers Scripture; its help names no search of your notes	YesSearch your notes by keyword, and text within a highlight style
Timelines and charts
The Bible's history as one timeline you zoom	YesThe whole account on one canvas you zoom	PartlyTimeline documents to read, not one timeline	YesAdvanced Timeline, in its subscriptions
The genealogy from Adam to Jesus, drawn on time	YesThe Lineage of Jesus Christ	NoNo genealogy among its charts or timelines	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Redraw the timeline for one era or span, and share it	YesScrollwarp, shared as a link	NoNothing of it on its pages	PartlyIts Timeline filters by date and era; a shared link not shown
Archaeological finds placed at their date	YesEach find with its museum and credit	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Biblical art, each work at the event it shows	Yes551 works, each at its event	PartlyA gallery by book and links from each verse, not placed by event	PartlyA Media Tool, not placed by event
Scripture's great moments told in order	YesThe Story in Gold	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Compare up to four people side by side	YesIn the Drawer	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Every cross-reference drawn as arcs	YesEvery cross-reference, as arcs over the books	NoIts charts are documents to read	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
The people of the Bible as a network	YesWho is named with whom, as a network	NoIts charts are documents to read	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
The sixty-six books as one chart, with your reading on it	YesThe Bible Library, your reading marked on it	NoIts charts are documents to read	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Scrollwork's own
A verse's place in Bible history	YesIts people, places and events, each opening on the Lineage or the people network	NoNot among the tools on the pages read	PartlyThe Factbook gathers people, places and events
Your notes on the timeline	YesYour notes and highlights marked on the Lineage; a notebook read in time order	NoNot among the features on the pages read	NoNot in its Timeline help
Search by when it happened	YesFilter by a span of years or an era, and sort the results by when it happened	NoResults are in the Bible's order; no filter by date or era in its help	PartlyIts Timeline filters events by date and era; its Bible search help names no such filter
Contested dates shown with each position and who holds it	YesEach position, its holder, and no ruling	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Evidence marked Confirmed or Contested, with its sources	YesEach find with its holder and status	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Apps, phones and print
Native phone apps	NoRuns in the web browser; no native app	YesOn iPhone, iPad and Android	YesOn iPhone, iPad and Android
Read offline	NoNot yet; it needs a connection	YesBibles downloaded in its apps	YesOn the desktop, and books downloaded on a phone
Every feature on a phone, in the browser	YesThe reader, the scrolls and the charts, each in a phone's form	PartlyNotes and highlights in the apps only; Strong's inline on the web only	PartlySome tools on the desktop only
Runs with no install, on any computer	YesIn the web browser	YesIts website	PartlyA web app; its desktop app needs a recent system
Print and export in the browser, on any computer	YesYour notes and the scrolls, from the browser	PartlyThe page printed by the browser	NoOn the desktop only; copy and paste elsewhere
Print the timeline, or save it as a poster	YesThe view, or the whole account as a poster	NoNothing of it on its pages	PartlyPrint and export on the desktop; a timeline print not named
Privacy and accessibility
Your notes stay on your device, never sent to us	YesKept in your browser, never sent to Scrollwork	PartlyBacked up to your own iCloud; its pages do not say they stay off its servers	NoKept in your account and synced
No advertising or analytics trackers	YesNone sends your reading to an advertising or analytics service	NoIts policy names its ad services	NoIts policy names Google Analytics and Amplitude
Your data is never used for marketing	YesYour reading is yours	YesContact details never sold, rented or traded	NoIts policy allows marketing and advertising
A published accessibility statement, with its test results	YesWCAG 2.2 AA, partly; every page tested	NoNone found; its app listing names no accessibility features	NoNone found; its app listing names no accessibility features
Movement stops when your device asks	YesReduced motion honoured	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages	Not confirmedNot settled by its own pages
Price and access
Free to use	YesFree	YesFree, on the web and in its apps	PartlyLogos Basic is free; feature subscriptions and libraries are paid
No advertising	YesNo advertising	PartlyNone seen in its apps; its website shows Sponsors	NoIts Android app is labelled Contains ads
Nothing locked behind a payment	YesNothing today; companion works will have a price	YesNo paid tier on its pages	NoSome tools in paid plans only
Read without an account	NoBehind a free sign-in	YesMost of it, without ever creating an account	YesA limited version without an account

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

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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

Scripture and the Christian confession

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.

Scrollwork is built by a Christian, for Christians and for anyone who wants to know the Bible. Faith comes first. Evidence and History are set beside it honestly, and where scholars disagree, each says what its sources support.

VIChronology

Where dates are disputed, the timeline shows which chronology it follows.

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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