John 1:1

Quick start

1. Choose a book and chapter using the picker at the top.
2. Read the Berean Standard Bible text in the main column.
3. Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline.
4. Click a verse number or use “Full verse page” for GA lookup, commentary, Greek tools, and (on ECM books) textual apparatus.
5. Click any manuscript siglum (e.g. 01, P46) to open its catalog record.

This book

Hover any verse to see manuscripts whose content includes John. The list is the same at every verse in this book.

The verse page gathers everything for one address: manuscript timelines, optional ECM apparatus, weighted consensus (ECM books), Greek breakdown, and John Gill's commentary.

Two manuscript lists

Book catalog

Manuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.

ECM (Editio Critica Maior)

The Editio Critica Maior (ECM) is the scholarly critical edition of the Greek New Testament. Its apparatus records which manuscripts attest each textual variant at a specific verse.

Verse page tools

Timeline

The timeline plots manuscript catalog dates (century or range). Click a dot or chip to open that witness. Undated manuscripts appear in a separate row.

GA lookup

Gregory–Aland (GA) numbers identify Greek NT manuscripts (01 = Sinaiticus, P46, 2427, etc.). Search any GA to open its catalog entry from the ~5,795-manuscript Kurzgefaßte Liste index.

Manuscript detail

Catalog metadata from NTVMR: date, contents, holding institution, and digitized page images when available. Links open NTVMR workspace and CSNTM when images exist.

Sources

English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.