Reading Modes
Greek (default)
The SBL Greek New Testament formatted in sense-lines — one thought, one breath per line.
English
Young’s Literal Translation (1898, public domain), aligned to the same sense-line breaks as the Greek.
Both
Greek and English interleaved, with the English in dimmer italic below each Greek line.
To switch modes: tap the settings gear in the top bar, then change the Display dropdown.
What Are Sense-Lines?
Each line in this edition represents one thought, one breath, one image. The original texts of the New Testament were composed for oral delivery, not silent reading.
Modern formatting — verse numbers, paragraph breaks, editorial punctuation — was added centuries after composition and can obscure the original structure. This edition recovers the compositional flow using Greek grammatical analysis, placing natural break points where the grammar itself dictates: at subordinate clauses, discourse markers, participial phrases, and parallel structures.
Navigation
- Tap the book name or chapter number in the top bar to open the navigation panel.
- Tap a chapter number, then select a verse to jump directly to it.
- URL format:
#book-chapter-verse (e.g., #acts-2-38)
- Tap the home icon or “GNT Reader” text to return to the landing page.
- Use arrow keys or the floating arrows at screen edges to move between chapters.
Search
- Tap the magnifying glass icon or press
Ctrl+F to open search.
- Type Greek without accents or breathing marks — search handles diacritics automatically.
- Type a dictionary form (e.g.,
ακουω) to find all inflected forms (52 forms for ἀκούω).
- Use quotes for an exact form:
"ακουσας" matches only that form.
- Boolean operators:
AND, OR, NOT, NEAR5, parentheses.
- Tap a result to navigate directly to that verse.
Settings
- Punctuation: Show or hide editorial punctuation (hidden by default — it is not original to the text).
- Verse numbers: Show or hide verse reference numbers.
- Text size: Small, Medium, or Large.
- Display: Greek, English, or Both.
About
Base text: SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
English translation: Young’s Literal Translation (1898), public domain.
Method: Sense-lines derived from Greek grammatical structure using syntax tree analysis, following the scholarly tradition of colometric formatting for oral delivery.
For more information, see the project on GitHub.
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