Cross references
One book, bound together by its own threads
Every bar below is a chapter, Genesis on the left to Revelation on the right. Every arc is a place where one chapter points to another. Short arcs glow gilt; the long ones that reach across the Testaments turn red.
- Scripture text
- King James Version, the 1611 first edition in its original spelling, printed in London by Robert Barker. See the printed pages
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Threads to follow
Some of the best-known places where one passage points back to another. Start with any verse, then tap a reference beside it to trace where the thread leads.
Echoes (often called types)
An early person, event or object that a later passage looks back to.
The Passover lamb
Exodus 12:5 Your lambe shall be without blemish, a male of the first yeere: yee shall take it out from the sheepe or from the goates.
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The serpent lifted up
Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brasse, and put it vpon a pole, and it came to passe, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when hee beheld the serpent of brasse, he liued.
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Three days in the deep
Jonah 1:17 ¶ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow vp Ionah, and Ionah was in the belly of the fish three dayes, and three nights.
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Melchizedek, priest and king
Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek King of Salem brought foorth bread and wine: and he was the Priest of the most high God.
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Bread from heaven
Exodus 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is Manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said vnto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath giuen you to eate.
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The first and last Adam
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, & breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a liuing soule.
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Promises kept (often called prophecy)
Words spoken beforehand, and the later passage that says they came to pass.
The seed of the woman
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seed and her seed: it shal bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
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A virgin shall conceive
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himselfe shal giue you a signe: Behold, a Uirgine shall conceiue and beare a Sonne, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Out of Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 But thou Beth-leem Ephratah, though thou bee little among the thousands of Iudah, yet out of thee shall he come foorth vnto mee, that is to be ruler in Israel: whose goings foorth haue bene from of old, from euerlasting.
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Wounded for our transgressions
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was vpon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
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They parted my garments
Psalms 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots vpon my vesture.
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Him whom they pierced
Zechariah 12:10 And I wil powre vpon the house of Dauid, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall looke vpon me whom they haue pearced, and they shal mourne for him, as one mourneth for his onely sonne, and shall be in bitternesse for him, as one that is in bitternesse for his first borne.
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Patterns (often called shadows)
Places where the text calls one thing a copy or shadow of another.
The pattern on the mount
Exodus 25:40 And looke that thou make them after their patterne, which was shewed thee in the mount.
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The veil of the temple
Exodus 26:33 ¶ And thou shalt hang vp the Uaile vnder the taches, that thou maist bring in thither within the Uaile, the Arke of the Testimony: and the Uaile shall diuide vnto you, betweene the holy place and the most holy.
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A rest that remains
Genesis 2:2 And on the seuenth day God ended his worke, which hee had made: And he rested on the seuenth day from all his worke, which he had made.
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The law, a shadow of good things to come
Hebrews 10:1 For the Law hauing a shadow of good things to come, and not the very Image of the things, can neuer with those sacrifices which they offered yeere by yeere continually, make the commers thereunto perfect:
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