MapMyBible The whole story is Jesus

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The whole story is Jesus. Explore Scripture six ways — read the text itself, trace its narratives and journeys, follow prophecy to its fulfillment, see how the Bible reached us, and set the four Gospels side by side. Choose where to begin.

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The whole testimony of Jesus — every promise in the Old, kept in the New

The English Bible Through the Years

Every English translation stands on the same ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, yet each renders them in the language of its age. This is not a chain of copies drifting from the original — it is many translators, across five centuries, each returning to the source. Trace how the words reach us below, then set two or more versions side by side to see exactly where they agree and where they differ.

Not a game of telephone

A common worry is that the Bible reached us like the children's game of telephone — translated from a translation of a translation, drifting further from the original at every step. It did not happen that way. From William Tyndale (1526) onward, English Bibles have been translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek, and today's versions rest on manuscripts a thousand years older than the King James translators ever saw.

The myth ✗
Hebrew→Greek→Latin→Old English→…→today's Bible
re-translated at each step, drifting from the original — this is not what happened.
What actually happened ✓
Straight from the source
From Tyndale (1526) on, translators worked from the Hebrew and Greek themselves — not from the Latin, and not from the English version before them.
Older, not newer, manuscripts
The 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls pushed our oldest Hebrew Old Testament back a thousand years — and it matched the text we already had.
You can check it yourself
Compare any verse across versions — and against the Hebrew and Greek themselves — in the passage tool further down this page.
From the original manuscripts

How the words reach us: the Hebrew and Greek originals, the ancient witnesses that preserve them — the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, the New Testament papyri and great codices — down through the printed texts to the English Bible. Hover or tap any manuscript to learn about it.

Hover or tap a manuscript in the tree above.
Timeline & lineage

Each dot is coloured by the original-language text it was translated from. Connecting lines mark a revision — an editorial update in modern English — not a re-translation from the version before it. Even a revision goes back to check the Hebrew and Greek.

Hover or tap a translation on the timeline to read about it.
Compare a passage — see the differences
Differences are highlighted against the first selected translation (the baseline, left-most).

The Gospels Side by Side

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell one story from four vantage points. This harmony lines up each episode across the Gospels that record it — pick any event to read the parallel accounts together and see where they echo one another and where each evangelist speaks with his own voice.

The harmony — tap an episode to read it in parallel
Select an episode to read the parallel accounts here.
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