The Bible explaining the Bible

The vision of this concept is in part to communicate the coherence and unity of the two collections of texts that we today know as the Old and the New Testaments, and in part to let the understanding of the Old Testament be informed and enhanced by the New Testament and vice versa. The original readers of the biblical texts were familiar with Hebrew history and cultural tradition, but the situation is different for modern Bible readers, who find it difficult to read and understand the Old Testament especially. Consequently most modern Bible reading focuses on the New Testament, and readers remain unfamiliar with the Old Testament. But this not only reduces the general familiarity with the Old Testament but impoverishes the understanding of the New Testament as well.

The Quotation Bible helps Bible readers by quoting relevant and related passages from the opposite part of the Bible alongside the passage that is currently studied. Also, whenever a text in the Old Testament is actually quoted in the New Testament text (and vice versa, whenever a text in the New Testament is a quote from the Old Testament) it is highlighted for easy identification. This allows the Bible to provide commentary on itself. The Bible text itself provides explanation and interpretation of events, practices, expressions, metaphors, and doctrine by presenting the most relevant text passages available at a glance on the same page without the reader having to flip forwards and backwards in the Bible to look up cross references.