Imagine a deck containing 1,189 cards—the chapters of the Bible.
Arranged in Jewish canonical order:
Torah · Nevi'im · Ketuvim
Card #3 = Genesis 3
Card #929 = 2 Chronicles 36
The second deck of chapter cards.
Card #930 = Matthew 1
Card #1189 = Revelation 22
Each of the 260 New Testament cards is laid upon whichever Tanakh chapter it shares the strongest documented relationship with. This is not chosen by hand: every one of the chapter-pair connections below competes for its landing place, greedily, from strongest vote-count down, and once a Tanakh card is taken it is out of play.
2 Corinthians 11 is Genesis 3's single strongest cross-referenced NT chapter in the real data — 46 combined votes across their shared verses.
The classic pairing of Romans 5 ("the Second Adam": Adam · sin · death ↔ Moshiach · righteousness · life) remains a real, strong secondary connection to Genesis 3 in the network — just not the single highest-voted one. Click Genesis 3 on the map below to see its full, real connection list.
They are not blank.
When all 260 NT cards have been played across the real, computed matching, 669 Tanakh cards remain without a principal NT card. Their lack of a solitaire overlay does not mean lack of New Testament material — it means their strongest single NT relationship lost out to an even stronger one elsewhere.
One complete NT chapter, computed from real vote totals, is selected as the principal correspondence for a Tanakh chapter.
Every other real relationship remains available on the map: every quotation, allusion, prophecy, typology, narrative parallel, theme, and shared vocabulary link the dataset records.
The solitaire board becomes a book. The 929 Tanakh chapters remain the canonical text. The 260 selected NT chapters become major footnotes. The real cross-reference network supplies the rest.
Principal NT Footnote (computed):
2 Corinthians 11
Real secondary network (top of 336 links):
Revelation 12 (44) · 1 Timothy 2 (42) · Romans 16 (35) · Romans 5 (27) · 1 John 3 (26) · Revelation 20 (22) · John 8 (20) · Matthew 1 (19)
The principal card identifies the strongest computed chapter-level relationship.
The surrounding footnotes, all real and all loaded below, preserve the much larger network.
Every chapter of the Bible sits on this circle in canonical order—Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim first, then the Gospels, Acts, the Epistles, and Revelation. Every line is a real chapter-to-chapter connection pulled straight from the dataset. Search a chapter, click a point, or drag the threshold to see more or less of the network at once.
Click any point on the circle, or search above, to see that chapter's actual cross-references — ranked by vote count, straight from the source data. Nothing here is generated or approximated.
Most cross-referenced chapters in the Bible (by total connection weight):
Data: openbible.info cross-reference database, © 2016–2024 openbible.info, CC BY. Aggregated to the chapter level for this exhibit by AFII.
What begins as solitaire becomes a map of interconnection.
The first question produces the solitaire board.
The second produces the network above.
Every chapter's computed solitaire match to the other testament, in one searchable list — so a question like “which Tanakh chapter does Revelation 12 land on?” can be answered directly, without paging through individual chapters. Vote counts in parentheses are the underlying OpenBible.info cross-reference weight behind each match.
Every Brit Chadasha chapter and its solitaire landing place in the Tanakh.
Tanakh chapters that a Brit Chadasha chapter has, in turn, claimed as its own principal match (not every Tanakh chapter has one — only 260 Brit Chadasha chapters exist to claim matches, out of 929 Tanakh chapters).
OpenBible is a whole-Bible, verse-to-verse network, derived primarily from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and supplemented with other sources. Its current underlying network is actually about 344,799 edges. This webpage is an interactive Bible cross-reference research and visualization tool. It turns Bible chapters into a “solitaire” matching board and a network map so you can explore how chapters in the Tanakh/Old Testament and Brit Chadasha/New Testament are connected through documented cross-references. What it does - Organizes all 1,189 biblical chapters in canonical order: 929 Tanakh/Old Testament chapters followed by 260 New Testament chapters. - Assigns each Brit Chadasha/New Testament chapter a single strongest available Tanakh chapter relationship, calculated from the dataset’s cross-reference “vote” totals rather than selected manually. - Preserves the broader set of relationships too—such as quotations, allusions, prophecy, typology, narrative parallels, themes, and shared vocabulary. - Lets you search for a chapter, select it on the circular diagram, and examine its linked chapters ranked by relationship weight. - Provides a threshold control to show either a smaller set of strongest connections or a denser network of references. Practical utility This is useful for: - Bible study: Identify passages in the Brit Chadasha/New Testament that most strongly connect to a Tanakh chapter, beyond familiar direct quotations. - Teaching and sermons: Build lesson material around intertextual connections—for example, tracing how Jude appears to be in front of Peter in 2Peter or how a theme or narrative in Genesis reappears in Paul, the Gospels, or Revelation. - Research: Quickly locate highly connected chapters and investigate potential literary, theological, or interpretive relationships. - Visual learning: See the Bible as an interconnected God-authored corpus instead of as isolated books and chapters. - Comparative reading: Use a selected “principal NT footnote” as a starting point, then inspect the secondary network rather than assuming there is only one meaningful connection. Important limitation The matching represents a data-driven cross-reference model, not a definitive theological claim that one passage is the sole or “correct” interpretation of another. A Tanakh chapter without a principal Brit Chadasha/New Testament overlay can still have many meaningful NT links; it simply lost the one-to-one matching competition to a stronger chapter pairing elsewhere. All this derives primarily from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and related OpenBible cross-reference data. For example, it identifies 2 Corinthians 11 as the strongest computed Brit Chadasha/New Testament correspondence to Genesis 3, while also listing other linked chapters—including Revelation 12, 1 Timothy 2, Romans 5, and John 8—for further study.