Scripture Knowledge Graph
An interactive network connecting sermons, podcasts, and music through shared scripture references.
How scripture connects all content
A knowledge graph is a network showing how things are connected. In this visualization, every dot (node) represents either a piece of content in our catalog or a Bible passage. Lines (edges) connect content to the scriptures it references — so a sermon about Romans 8 is linked to that passage, as is a worship song that quotes the same verse.
The result is a web of connections that reveals which scriptures serve as theological hubs — passages that bridge across content formats. A user exploring Romans 8:28 could discover not just other teachings on that verse, but worship music and podcasts that draw from the same theology.
Zoom in to explore clusters, hover over nodes to see titles, and notice how the most-connected scripture passages sit at the center of dense neighborhoods of content.
- 214 unique scripture passages form the connective tissue linking 857 content items (199 sermons, 658 podcasts) in the visualized subgraph
- The most-connected passages — Romans 1 (26 connections), Genesis 1 (23), Romans 8 (20), Matthew 5 (17), Matthew 24 (17) — act as theological hubs bridging sermons and podcasts
- Pauline epistles dominate the hub structure: 5 of the top 10 most-connected passages are from Romans, reflecting the centrality of Paul's theology in contemporary Christian audio
Which passages get cited together?
Moving from single-passage hubs to pairs — the cross-references teachers reach for in the same breath.
Scripture pairings across the catalog
For every content item that cites two or more scripture passages, we generate every unordered pair of references (normalized to the chapter level) and count how often each pair appears together. The result is a map of the cross-references teachers actually reach for in the same breath — the Old Testament passage read alongside its New Testament fulfillment, the two Pauline passages invoked to explain one doctrine, the prophecy quoted beside its Gospel echo.
The bar chart shows the top 30 most common chapter-level pairs. The heatmap shows cross-book co-occurrence frequency for the twenty most-referenced books — darker cells indicate books that regularly appear together in a single sermon, podcast, or song. The Theological Patterns tab highlights meaningful pairings and what they suggest about how these teachers read Scripture.
- 567 content items cite 2+ scripture passages, yielding 2,118 unique chapter-level pairings and 2,412 total pair co-occurrences
- The canon shows up lopsidedly: 47% of pairings stay within the New Testament, 35% bridge OT and NT, and only 17% stay within the Old Testament — contemporary Christian audio is strongly Christocentric while still reaching into OT background roughly twice as often as it cites OT passages together
- The most theologically striking pair is Matthew 27 × Psalms 22 — the crucifixion narrative cited alongside the lament Psalm Jesus quoted from the cross, a classic fulfillment reading that reads the Passion as prophetic rather than isolated tragedy
- Matthew, John, Psalms, Romans, and Luke anchor the network — Matthew and John together account for the majority of NT–NT pairings, while Psalms is the OT hub that most often bridges into the New Testament