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Data overview
Actions attributed to Jesus
Preliminary automated counts of recorded actions across Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
SCRIPTURE, EXAMINED CAREFULLY
Rightly
Divided
Read the text. Trace the evidence. Return to Scripture.
Scripture data explorations that make their questions, sources, and limitations visible.
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DATA INDEX
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A growing collection of statistics, curated references, and transparent analysis.
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Words of the Old Testament
KJV word frequencies, subject keywords, book totals, and experimental character speech estimates.
DATA OVERVIEW 001 · THE FOUR GOSPELS
What did Jesus
do?
A data-driven look at the actions attributed to Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — from speaking and traveling to healing, praying, serving, and suffering.
01
Speaking dominates the record.
The narrative most often records Jesus communicating.
02
Movement matters.
Travel and movement are the second-largest category in this first pass.
03
Raw counts are not events.
Parallel Gospel accounts will later be harmonized to estimate unique episodes.
GOSPEL COMPARISON
Four witnesses, different emphases.
Choose an action to compare how often the current dataset detects it in each Gospel.
How to read this
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ACTION EXPLORER
Explore the recorded actions.
Filter by Gospel or behavioral group. Select an action to see its count and representative passages.
FROM COUNT TO CONTEXT
The verse remains the evidence.
Analytics should lead back to Scripture, not replace it. These examples show how multiple actions can occur in one passage.
METHODOLOGY
Count carefully.
Interpret cautiously.
What the current numbers mean
This first version uses conservative pattern matching against the King James Version. It looks for explicit action language near references to Jesus, Christ, or the Son of Man. This makes the first-pass data reproducible, but it also undercounts pronoun-based descriptions such as “he withdrew … and prayed.”
What the numbers do not mean
A textual occurrence is not automatically a unique historical event. The same episode may appear in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Future versions will maintain separate measures for raw textual occurrences, verses, episodes within each Gospel, and harmonized cross-Gospel events.
Validation plan
- Review each detected verse and remove false positives.
- Add missed actions expressed through pronouns or indirect wording.
- Record the actor, action, object or recipient, location, and passage.
- Link parallel passages while preserving each Gospel’s individual account.
- Publish a versioned dataset so every chart can be audited.
Data overview counts use the King James Version (KJV). The analytical categories are editorial labels, not words added to the biblical text.