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.
We map citations to timestamped audio so you can hear the teaching yourself. Speaker-drawn cross-references are included only when the product can attest the connection; pipeline tags and editorial guesses are not treated as voice-drawn links. 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.
When a cross-reference is speaker-drawn, it is bidirectional in the product: if a teacher connects Romans 1:16 to Acts 9:3, you'll see that link on both verses. Scholarly or pipeline-suggested links are kept separate from voice-drawn connections.
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.
The Rabbit Trails button in the top right opens curated paths through scripture — multi-stop journeys that follow a theme across books. Each trail is built from the cross-reference web, following the connections the speakers themselves created.
Every stop on a trail is a verse with voice citations. Hit the auto-play button and the trail comes alive — it reads each verse aloud, then plays every voice that teaches on it before advancing to the next stop. You can choose how much of each sermon or episode to hear: 2 minutes for a quick sample, 5 minutes to go deeper, or all content to hear everything. As the trail plays, the current step is highlighted so you can follow along, and a mini-player keeps the controls accessible without blocking the view.
This trail starts at the New Testament's most recognized sentence, reaches back to the oldest commandment it echoes, and closes where Jesus names that commandment as the greatest of all. Three voices guide you — Fisher, Schmitz, and Dr. King — each teaching the same verses from a different tradition.
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.
Stats reflect live corpus counts. Timestamps point into the audio when available. Speaker-drawn cross-references require attestation — not an LLM pipeline tag.