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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14, KJV).
Hyperlinked to. . .
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us (Matthew 1:23).
Consider this visual for Interruptions. It will interrupt any doubts about the inspiration of the Bible. For full effect. . . look at it on a large computer screen.
This image shows the 63,779 hyperlinks in the Bible. A hyperlink (through software) connects topics and words to related information in other documents or websites. For example, click on the following link: www.grantedwardsauthor.com, and it will hyperlink you to the best blog site on the world wide web!
Now, back to the 63,779 hyperlinks in the Bible.
In 2007, two men — Chris Harrison and Christoph Romhild — began assembling a digital dataset of cross references found in the King James Bible. Those who read actual paper Bibles note cross-references in the margins.
A sample cross reference would be the prophecy in Isaiah 7:14 of a virgin bearing a child, which can be hyperlinked to Matthew 1:23 when Matthew references Isaiah’s prophecy as he describes the virgin birth of Jesus.
However, Chris and Chris took cross-referencing to another level.
What they accomplished was to find all the cross-references in the entire Bible (KJV) and then graph them in the colored illustration above. Let’s read what one of the Chris guys says about the origin and meaning of the graph. . .
We struggled to find an elegant solution to render the data — 63,779 cross-references in total. We set our sights on something more beautiful than functional. At the same time, we wanted a visualization that honored and revealed the complexity of the Bible at every level — as one leans in, smaller details should become visible. This ultimately led us to the multi-colored arc diagram.
The bar chart that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters in the Bible, starting with Genesis 1 on the left. Books alternate in color between light and dark gray, with the first book of the Old and New Testaments in white. The length of each bar denotes the number of verses in that chapter (for instance, the longest bar is the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119). Each of the 63,779 cross-references found in the Bible are depicted by a single arc — the color corresponds to the distance between the two chapters, creating a rainbow-like effect.
Now look at the illustration again — amazing!
The Bible is the first hyperlinked book, originating and devised in Heaven before computer software and the internet existed.
Skeptics claim that the Bible is a mishmash of writings collected helter-skelter through the years. This diagram reveals a remarkable cohesion. And. . . and. . . and. . . the Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years by 40 authors, and in three languages. . . and. . . and. . . and. . .
You see the visual. It’s all connected by hyperlinks.
How? The inspiration of the Holy Spirit!