True Vine leads people to Christ, enlightens the misled, strengthens faith, and offers comfort and hope — challenging misinformation with the authentic gospel and rigorous biblical scholarship.
Dive into Scripture through multiple dimensions — text, image, geography, and video — each rooted in rigorous biblical scholarship.
In-depth Bible studies, expository articles, and theological essays grounded in historical-grammatical scholarship.
Browse articlesVisual timelines, family trees, maps, and diagrams that make complex biblical concepts clear and memorable.
View infographicsA comprehensive biblical study platform — explore geography, history, chronology, and calendar traditions. Use it in the browser, on any device, without installing anything.
Explore the platformThe Bible does not need to be defended so much as it needs to be correctly understood and faithfully applied. True Vine challenges the comfortable consensus that has settled over much of modern Christianity — calling believers back to the authentic gospel, rightly divided, without compromise or comfort-seeking revision.
A comprehensive biblical study platform — explore geography, history, chronology, and calendar traditions. Built by True Vine's director, John Bigelow. Use it in the browser, on any device, without installing anything.
138 biblical locations · 61 figures · 30 people groups · Multi-tradition calendars · LXX chronology lab. Explore Scripture as it was known to the prophets and apostles — grounded in the Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch.
Explore True VineyardEmbedded within this site and available on desktop and mobile — the True Vineyard app by John Bigelow brings the biblical world to life with scholarship grounded in the Septuagint.
138 locations · 11 biblical moments · 8 view modes (terrain, satellite, parchment, midnight) · 3D view · measure itinerary tool · layer toggles
30 groups — Canaanites, Amorites, Moabites & more. LXX Greek names, territory maps, key events for each nation.
61 figures with textual forms (LXX Greek + Hebrew), biographical summaries, key events, and common misconceptions addressed.
Multi-tradition comparison: Torah Aviv, Rabbinic, Karaite, Sadducee, Samaritan, Enoch/Jubilees, Qumran — with strengths & watch points for each.
LXX/SP/MT lifespan comparison · Genesis chronology timeline · Interactive timeline lab with textual criticism using LXX primary, MT secondary.
The director continues to add new features. The app lives within truevine.life and is also available standalone on any device.
Launch True Vineyard"I am the true vine" — as preserved in the three oldest surviving complete Greek New Testament manuscripts
“Εγώ ειμι η αμπελος η αληθινη, και ο πατηρ μου ο γεωργος εστιν.”
The oldest complete New Testament in existence. Written in Greek uncial script, likely in Caesarea or Egypt. Discovered by Tischendorf at St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, in 1844. Sinaiticus uses the full verb form εστιν (estin).
“Εγώ ειμι η αμπελος η αληθινη, και ο πατηρ μου ο γεωργος εστιν.”
Considered by many the single most important biblical manuscript in existence — slightly older than Sinaiticus and held in the Vatican Library since at least 1475. The Westcott-Hort critical text (1881) relied primarily on Vaticanus. Its agreement with Sinaiticus at John 15:1 is a strong indicator of the stability and antiquity of this Greek text.
“Εγώ ειμι η αμπελος η αληθινη, και ο πατηρ μου ο γεωργος εστι.”
Written in Egypt (possibly Alexandria). Uses the contracted form εστι (esti) — a minor scribal variant with no difference in meaning. Gifted to King Charles I of England in 1627 by the Patriarch of Constantinople. All three manuscripts form a remarkably consistent witness, confirming the same Greek reading across three independent 4th–5th century sources.
"By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established." — 2 Corinthians 13:1
