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The stories of the Bible are spread across many books. The life of Jesus was recorded through different eyes in four Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The road of Moses runs from Exodus to Joshua; David appears in Samuel, Kings and Chronicles; Paul is scattered through Acts and thirteen letters.

So reading one book at a time gives you depth, but you have to piece together in your own head “in what order, and where, did all this unfold?” This app weaves those records together in the order of when and where things happened, joining each journey into a single road. The Jesus journey is 61 scenes, from his birth to his ascension.

When we read the Bible, we often skim past place names. But once you know how many days’ walk it is from Nazareth to Bethlehem, how vast the wilderness is between Egypt and Mount Sinai, and how many times Paul crossed the sea, the stories read differently.

In the Jesus, Moses and Joshua, David, Kings and Paul journeys, every move to a new scene is a walk across the real land. You also see the distance, how many days it took, and how far you have walked so far. The aim is to let you feel, almost in your body, how far the people of the Bible walked. Psalms follows, on the map, the places where the songs were born.

Bible apps are good for reading the text, and commentaries for explaining its meaning. ‘The Way’ comes one step before both: it is a map and a guide that shows you the whole picture. For every scene it brings together the map, a picture, a 3D stage, narration, Scripture, background notes, a question to pause and reflect on, and a quiz. Depending on the journey, there is also a comparison of the four Gospels (Jesus), the letters written in that place (Paul), or the psalms sung in that place (David and Kings).

To help you meet the stories of the Bible as one continuous road. Not as scattered fragments of story, but as roads the people of the Bible actually walked, on real ground — and to let the words spoken along those roads shine on your own life today.

There is a prayer we pray as we make this app.

• That in every journey not a single verse of God’s word is twisted.
• That through this app people experience the word with more joy and delight.
• And so come to know God more and more deeply.

That is also why we have put it into several languages. We hope this road will be used in world mission, too, to share the gospel.

It begins with the footsteps of Jesus and goes on to walk many roads of the Bible on the same map and stage. Choose a journey from the cards on the first screen; inside the app, you can also move to another journey from ‘The Way series’ list on the start screen. Your progress is kept separately for each journey.

• Jesus — The footsteps of Jesus through the four Gospels (61 scenes, with a prologue in Eden)
• Moses and Joshua — From Egypt through the wilderness to Canaan (40 scenes)
• David — From shepherd of Bethlehem to king in Jerusalem (39 scenes)
• Kings — Two kingdoms, following the prophets (41 scenes)
• Paul — From the Damascus road to Rome: the gospel to the ends of the earth, with the thirteen letters he wrote along the way (42 scenes)
• Psalms — Songs and prayers, heard where they were first sung (62 psalms, in Korean)
• Proverbs — Solomon’s wisdom for today’s road: a day’s walk with wisdom, and A Chapter a Day: Proverbs in 31 Days (8 scenes)
• GoodNews (the Gospel) — God’s love and salvation in four spiritual laws (4 scenes)
• Why Christianity? — Religions that climb up, a God who came down — and the church

No. This app is a door into the Bible. Every scene lists the chapters and verses of the text (under the ‘Scripture’ tab). When a scene stays with you, please open your Bible and read that passage for yourself.

The stories are written faithfully to the text, and nothing that is not in the text has been invented. Only the atmosphere — the landscape, the light, the sounds of the day — has been added.

We did not copy sentences from any existing Bible translation. The verses are fresh renderings in today’s language that keep the meaning of the original. So the wording may differ a little from the translation you know. For the exact text, please look up the chapter and verse listed alongside in your Bible.

Proverbs are sayings people have memorised for generations, so we kept the familiar shape and words of each saying as far as possible and only put the endings into today’s language. The lyrics of the Psalms songs keep the meaning and words of the psalms, shaped so they are easy to sing.

The order of the Jesus journey is based on the traditional ‘harmony of the Gospels’, which sets the four accounts side by side. Even so, scholars disagree about the sequence of some events.

The other journeys follow the order of their own books. Moses and Joshua follows Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and Joshua; David follows 1 and 2 Samuel and the opening of 1 Kings (alongside 1 Chronicles); Kings follows 1 and 2 Kings; and Paul follows the flow of Acts, with the letters set in the places where they were written. Psalms walks in eight groups, following the times and places where the songs were born; Proverbs follows the course of one day, from the city gate in the morning to the next dawn; and GoodNews walks through its four principles in order.

There are 32 places in the Jesus journey, 24 in Moses and Joshua, 23 in David, 20 in Kings and 24 in Paul. Places whose exact location is unknown (Emmaus, Mount Horeb, the Sea of Reeds and others) are set at the most likely site and marked ‘approx.’ Dates are given as approximations, such as ‘c. AD 30’.

Why Jesus came, and why he had to carry the cross, begins with the story of the first man, Adam, turning away from God, when sin and death came into the world (Genesis 3). So before the 61 scenes of the Jesus journey we placed “The Lost Garden” as a prologue.

That very day God promised that the woman’s offspring would crush the serpent’s head, and the way to the tree of life was closed. The name of this app, “The Way”, also carries this meaning: Jesus opens that closed way again.

The prologue is not counted in the scene numbers, quizzes or seals. First-time walkers begin with it, and you can see it again any time with the small tree button at the start of the timeline. Adam and Eve are drawn only as silhouettes in light, God only as light, and the serpent only as a shadow. The first two scenes of GoodNews stand on the same Eden stage.

They are a miniature stage set up over the place where the scene happened. Like a museum diorama, the people of that day stand on the place pin, so you can see at a glance where you are and what is happening.

The stage moves with the narration. As each sentence is read, figures walk in, speak, kneel and look up. When someone speaks, the others turn to look. In night scenes the whole map turns indigo; in storm scenes, cloud shadows pass over it; and at dawn, it glows gold.

The stage takes a different form in some journeys. Proverbs uses a street stage at eye level instead of the map, and GoodNews shows only the stage, with no map. Psalms has no 3D stage and focuses on the map and the song lyrics.

That is on purpose. The map fits hundreds of kilometres onto one screen. At true scale, a person would be smaller than a single dot and simply invisible.

So the stage does not follow the map’s scale; it is always drawn at about the same size on screen — around 300px wide on both computers and phones. When you zoom the map in or out, the figures stay large enough to recognise, and the floor of the stage stays fixed to that place’s pin. The trade-off is that, from far away, the stage looks bigger than the village or city it sits on. Think of it as a picture on the map, like a signpost saying “this is where it happened.”

In scenes with large crowds, the stage is drawn a little wider and the figures a little smaller so that everyone fits on one screen.

Because the stage is larger, we adjusted it so it does not spill over onto the wrong places.

• Things that must match the real terrain, such as shorelines and fields, are placed at their real latitude and longitude. That way boats sit on the water and people stand on land.
• For towns whose pin is right at the water’s edge (such as Capernaum in the Jesus journey), the stage has been shifted slightly toward land.
• In the Jesus and Paul journeys, when you zoom in on Jerusalem as far as the city, a 3D picture of the city appears beneath it. So the stage does not build its own temple, and for places right beside the walls, such as Golgotha, the stage has been moved slightly out into the open ground outside the city. The David and Kings journeys do not use this picture, because it shows the city as it was a thousand years later.
• Directions follow the map as well: the top of the screen is north and the right is east. In the Mount of Olives scenes, the city lies to the west (on the left).

The stages of every journey share one principle: suffering and violence are not depicted. Golgotha is shown only by the outline of crosses in the distance, people kneeling toward them, and the darkening light. Painful moments such as the mocking and the flogging are heard only in the narration, while the stage is left empty or holds only people weeping. The other journeys are the same: chariots sinking into the sea, the death of Goliath and the stoning of Stephen are not drawn, but shown only as people disappearing or a light going out. This is so that it is fine to watch with children — and so that the words come before our imagination.

There are other principles too.

• God and evil without bodily form: God is shown only as fire and light, or a pillar of cloud, and the tempter in the wilderness only as a dark, hooded silhouette.
• Faithful to the text: nothing significant that is not in the Bible is invented. The stage only supports the narration.
• Nothing pops up suddenly: people fade in gradually or walk in.

It is the rise and fall of the land, built from real elevation data (satellite terrain surveys). Galilee, Judea with the plains to its west, and Egypt load as you get close to a place; in the Moses and Joshua and Kings journeys, which cross the wilderness, the Sinai Peninsula and the Negev load too. Elsewhere, a flat map image is laid down. Heights are exaggerated a little, by 1.8×. At true proportions the hills would look almost flat, so this makes the valleys and ridges easy to see.

In 3D terrain you can drag to move, zoom with the mouse wheel or two fingers, and on a computer rotate the view with the buttons on the left. See for yourself why Jerusalem is a place you “go up” to, and how steep the road is from Jericho to Jerusalem.

• The whole picture: the life of Jesus, the exodus and the wilderness, David and the two kingdoms, and Paul’s mission each come together as one flow. Each event finds its place — when and where it happened.
• A feel for the land: seeing the distances and terrain makes words like “he went up”, “they crossed over” and “he went out into the wilderness” come alive.
• Connecting Scripture with Scripture: in the Jesus journey you compare how the four Gospels record the same event; in the Paul journey you meet the letters in the places where they were written; and in the David and Kings journeys you meet the psalms where those songs were born.
• Holding the word longer: each scene gathers its key verses, and a question to pause and reflect on helps you hold them up to your life today.
• Making it stick: with pictures, a stage, sound and quizzes together, a scene you have seen once stays with you for a long time.

• Those reading the Bible for the first time: you can grasp the big storyline before diving into the text. For those hearing the gospel for the first time, the four scenes of GoodNews make a short guide.
• Those who have read the Bible for years: you will see familiar stories afresh, laid out on a map and in order.
• Families and small groups: it is a good way to listen to a scene together and talk it over with one question.
• Sunday schools and youth: the stage and quizzes keep learning from getting dull. Since painful scenes are not depicted, it is also suitable for watching with children.

1. On the first screen, choose the journey card you want to walk, then press ‘Begin the journey’. When you come back, you can carry on from the scene you were last viewing.
2. Read the story on the card on the right (at the bottom on a phone), or press the ▶ button to hear it read aloud.
3. When you are done, press ‘Walk to the next place’. You will go on to the next scene.

Walk one or two scenes a day, and in a month or two you will have followed the whole life of Jesus once. If you would like to start small, the four scenes of GoodNews or the eight scenes of Proverbs are a good place to begin.

• ▶ Listen: reads the scene’s title and story in turn. Scripture is not read aloud; it stays on the page for you to read slowly yourself. Proverbs and GoodNews are the exception: their key verses are read within the story itself. In Korean the narration is a recorded voice, and Proverbs is read by a man’s voice, like a father speaking to his son. On a computer, subtitles appear at the bottom of the map (on a phone you just listen, without subtitles), and the stage moves along with each sentence.
• Guided journey: when it is on, after one scene has been read the app moves on to the next scene by itself and keeps reading. You can leave it playing like an audiobook.
• Speed: choose anything from 0.85× to 1.3×.
• ♫ Background music: gentle music suited to the scene plays beneath the narration. To turn it off, press the music-note button. In the Psalms journey, you hear songs instead of background music.

• Story: the scene retold in prose. Further down, ‘Background’ gives the historical and geographical setting, and ‘Pause and Reflect’ offers a question to hold up to your life today.
• Scripture: the key verses of the scene, gathered together, with chapter and verse. In the Psalms journey, the song lyrics are here.
• Compare (Jesus journey): shows which of the four Gospels record this scene, with their chapters and verses side by side.

Some scenes in the Paul journey have a box called ‘The heart of the gospel’, which points out the core message of the apostle’s sermons and of the events.

It gathers Paul’s thirteen letters in the order he wrote them. For each letter you can read where he wrote it, to whom and why, its heart in one sentence, and three verses to keep. Press ‘Show the letter’s path’ and a dotted line joins the place it was written to the place it was sent, on the map of the Mediterranean. In scenes where a letter was written, the card also shows ‘Letters written here’.

Seventeen scenes in the David journey and ten in the Kings journey are linked to the psalms connected with that place. When that song has been added to the Psalms journey, it appears below the story, and you can press it to listen right away.

You walk through 62 psalms in eight groups, following the places where the songs were born. A short narration tells you where and why the song was sung, then the song plays and its lyrics rise large over the map. There is no 3D stage or quiz, and it is available only in Korean. The songs and lyrics were made with AI and refined by people. We are adding them one at a time, so some songs are still being prepared.

Instead of the map, Proverbs walks through Jerusalem in Solomon’s day on a street stage at eye level. In eight scenes it follows a single day: from the city gate in the morning, through the fields, the marketplace, a friend’s house, a night alley and the front of the palace, to our own home, and finally to the house of wisdom at dawn.

The ‘A Chapter a Day’ tab at the top lets you read the 31 chapters of Proverbs one chapter a day, matched to the date. Each chapter has three verses and a word from Father; press ‘I read it’ and the chapters you have read this month are marked.

• Drag and zoom: drag the map to look around. Zooming in and out happens automatically to suit each scene, and on a computer you can zoom in and out yourself with the + / − buttons on the left. In Jerusalem scenes of the Jesus and Paul journeys, the view goes right into the city and a 3D picture of the city appears.
• Place chip (the place name at the top left): press it to return to the current scene’s place.
• Whole route: see the entire road so far at a glance. Press it again to return to the current scene.
• Press a pin: press a place on the map to go to the scene that happened there.
• 3D button: see the rise and fall of the land in relief. In 3D, zoom with the mouse wheel or two fingers; on a computer you can also rotate or zoom with the buttons on the left.
• Timeline at the bottom: each period has its own colour and picture. Press a dot to jump straight to a scene. Brightly filled dots are scenes you have already visited.

The area of the map differs from journey to journey. The Moses journey reaches Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, Kings reaches Babylon at the end, and Paul spans the Mediterranean from Jerusalem to Rome.

The scene card is a sheet that slides up from the bottom of the screen. At first it comes only halfway up, so the map and the stage are shown large.

• Drag the handle at the top of the sheet upward, or scroll the text up, and it rises all the way so the text is easy to read.
• Drag it down and it lowers one step at a time until only the title bar is left, giving you a wide view of the map.
• Add it to your home screen and you can open it straight away, like an app. Each journey has its own icon and name.

• Words tab (at the top): the words of each journey, gathered in the order of the journey. The Jesus journey gathers the words of Jesus; the other journeys gather the words of God and the words spoken along that road; Psalms gathers the refrains of the songs. You can search by a word such as “love”, “bread” or “peace”.
• Harmony of the Gospels (Jesus journey, ⚙ Settings at the top right): a table showing where each of the four Gospels records the 61 scenes. You can filter it too, with options such as ‘All four Gospels’ or ‘John only’. Press a row to go to that scene.
• Quiz tab and scene quizzes (the ‘Quiz’ button at the bottom right): go back over the scenes you have walked through as questions. The Psalms journey has no quiz.
• My footsteps (the progress bar at the top, or Settings): each scene you open leaves a footstep, and each quiz you answer correctly earns a star.
• Share this app (first screen or Settings): on a phone it opens the share sheet for messaging apps; on a computer without one it copies the site address. The share button on a journey card sends that journey’s address.

When the last scene has been read, or when you press ‘Finish the journey’ on the last card, a closing window appears. It shows at a glance the scenes and places you have walked, the seals stamped for each period (eight periods in the Jesus journey) and your quiz stars; for journeys that walk the map, it also shows the distance you have walked.

• If there are questions you have not answered, you can gather just those and answer them with ‘Answer the remaining questions’. Answer them all and you receive the gold seal: ‘Every question answered — the way walked in full’. You are never forced to do them.
• If you skipped any scenes, you can go straight to them.
• Choose the scene that stayed with you most, and it is kept in ‘My footsteps’.
• At the end comes the good news this way carries — with a word of invitation to church and a prayer for those who have met him for the first time, and a word of blessing for those who already follow him.
• After GoodNews you can walk on into the Jesus journey, and after Proverbs into ‘A Chapter a Day’.

The closing window opens by itself once, the first time you finish; after that you can reopen it from ‘My footsteps’.

• Personal devotion: listen to one scene a day and carry one question with you through the day. Better still, read that scene’s passage in your own Bible. With Proverbs’ ‘A Chapter a Day’, you can also read through Proverbs once a month.
• Family worship: watch the screen together, listen to the narration, and try the quiz with your children.
• Small groups and Bible study: use the Jesus journey’s ‘Compare’ tab and the Harmony to see how each Gospel records the same event; in the Paul journey, read together where and why each letter was written.
• Sunday school: put it on a big screen and follow the road together with ‘Walk to the next place’. Guessing the distance walked can be fun, too.
• Evangelism: go through the four scenes of GoodNews with someone hearing the gospel for the first time.
• On your commute: turn on the Guided journey and listen like an audiobook, or listen to the Psalms songs one after another.

No sign-up or login is needed. The scenes you have visited, your quiz results and your ‘A Chapter a Day’ record are saved separately for each journey, only in the browser of the device you are using, and are never sent anywhere. That means your record does not carry over to another device or another browser. You can clear your record in ‘My footsteps’.

You can change the language in ⚙ Settings at the top right. Korean, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Indonesian and Japanese are supported. Psalms is available only in Korean. Recorded narration is currently available only in Korean; other languages are read aloud by your device’s own voice.

The pictures for the Jesus journey come from the Life of Christ series by the 19th-century French painter James Tissot. For this series he travelled to the Holy Land several times himself, painting its landscapes and people. The Moses and Joshua journey also uses mostly Tissot’s Old Testament series, and for the other journeys we chose works by Caravaggio, Raphael, Rembrandt, Doré and others whose copyright has expired, so anyone may use them. The source is noted for each picture.

Two scenes in the Moses journey, for which no suitable classic painting could be found, and the pen-line drawings of GoodNews were drawn with AI, and this is noted beneath each picture. Proverbs and Psalms are met through the street stage and songs instead of pictures.

On a separate page we compare, by the same yardstick, what religions say we must do to be saved — and whether people or God does it. It goes on to the story of the church at the end, and you can also download it as a booklet.

Read “Why Christianity?” →