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Christology Catena
Chord + arc Christology pillars catena

The shape of Christology — sixteen pillar verses

seeds · books
book pairs · top verses
Pillar verses
NT books touched
OT books touched
Cross-testament arcs
Book‑to‑book pull chord diagram
Each book is a sector on the perimeter, ordered canonically. Ribbon thickness encodes the number of cross-references attested between book pairs across all 16 pillar seeds.
OT sector — Genesis → Malachi
NT sector — Matthew → Revelation
Cross-testament ribbon (OT ↔ NT)
Verse‑level catena arc diagram
The top 200 verses by aggregated degree, laid out canonically (Genesis → Revelation). Each arc is a cross-reference attested across ≥2 pillar seeds; cross-testament arcs render in gilt above the axis to make OT→NT typological pull visible.
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Sixteen Christology pillar verses, each expanded two hops outward into curated and computed cross-references, then aggregated. Ranker-surfaced candidates, not authoritative claims; confirm interpretation against the primary scripture text.

Companions: John 3:16 network · John 3:16 thread.

Sources: King James Version (Pure Cambridge Edition) — public domain · Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project — Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain); lemma and morphology annotations CC BY 4.0 · Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Majority Text (RP 2018) — Dr. Maurice A. Robinson and the byztxt maintainers; public domain · Strong's 1890 dictionaries via Open Scriptures — CC-BY-SA on the structured form · Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via OpenBible.info — CC BY 4.0 · STEPBible / Tyndale House TIPNR — CC BY 4.0.