Follow the voice. Chase the cross-reference. Go deeper.
The Bible Rabbit maps how real teachers connect scripture. When a pastor reads Acts 9 and then quotes Romans 1:16 to explain what happened on the Damascus road, that connection gets recorded — with the exact timestamp in the audio so you can hear it yourself.
Every citation is verified against the actual transcript. Every cross-reference is a connection the speaker drew in their teaching, not an editorial guess. You hear the Bible the way the teacher taught it.
We're building this with many voices over time — pastors, theologians, scholars, and historical figures. You choose which voices you want to hear from. Filter by speaker on any verse to see only the teachers that matter to you, or open it up and hear how different traditions approach the same passage.
When you open any verse, the Voices tab shows you every teacher who discusses that passage. Each card includes the sermon title, a play button that starts the audio 30 seconds before the verse is mentioned, and the cross-references that speaker connected to it.
Cross-references are bidirectional. If Brian Fisher connects Romans 1:16 to Acts 9:3, you'll see that link on both verses — whether you start from Romans or from Acts. These aren't just thematic matches. The speaker discussed both verses and used one to illuminate the other in the same teaching.
The Rabbit Holes tab on each verse shows where the cross-references lead. Click one and you're following a trail of connections across the Bible, each one backed by a specific moment in a specific sermon. That's the rabbit hole.
Hit the Rabbit Trails button in the top right to see curated paths through scripture — multi-stop journeys that follow a theme across books. Each stop on a trail is a verse with voice citations, so you can listen to the teaching at every point along the way. Trails are built from the cross-reference web, following the connections the speakers themselves created.
Brian Fisher preaches through Paul's conversion on the Damascus road. He reads the text sequentially, but along the way he brings in 11 verses from outside Acts to explain what's happening. Here's the sermon mapped:
Gray = primary text read sequentially. Red = cross-references Fisher brings in from outside Acts.
Fisher builds an argument across three verses woven into the Acts 9 narrative:
While enemies, reconciled through death → No longer I, but Christ lives in me → New creation, the old has passed away
Each verse is cross-referenced to the others because Fisher teaches them as a connected progression. Start from any one and the rabbit hole leads to the other two.
Fr. Mike Schmitz's Bible in a Year is a 365-episode podcast that reads the entire Bible aloud with daily commentary. Unlike a typical sermon where the pastor picks a passage and builds a lesson around it, BIAY follows a structured reading plan — each episode covers 2-4 chapters across multiple books, then Fr. Mike reflects on what was read.
This creates a different kind of voice citation. The reading section gives us verse-level timestamps for every verse Schmitz reads aloud — so when you tap play on Genesis 22:8, you hear him read that exact verse. The commentary section is where the cross-references come from: Schmitz connects the day's reading to other parts of scripture, drawing lines across the Bible that the reading plan alone wouldn't reveal.
Schmitz reads Genesis 22-23, Job 11-12, and Proverbs 2. In his commentary, he draws three cross-references from Genesis 22 — the binding of Isaac — to the New Testament:
Gray = verses Schmitz reads aloud (with timestamps). Red = cross-references from his commentary.
In the commentary, Schmitz makes three connections that link Genesis 22 to the rest of the Bible:
Schmitz explicitly connects God's words to Abraham — "take your only son, whom you love" — to John 3:16. The same language, the same sacrifice, separated by two thousand years of scripture.
He also connects the passage to Hebrews 11:17-19 (the author of Hebrews interpreting Abraham's faith as belief in resurrection) and Matthew 26:39 (Jesus in Gethsemane — "not my will but yours" — mirroring Isaac's willing submission). All three commentary citations are cross-referenced bidirectionally back to the Genesis 22 reading.
Every citation is transcript-verified. Every cross-reference is bidirectional. Every timestamp points to the actual moment in the audio.