u/sammyyamazaki

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a project called THIS WAY—an interactive map that lets you explore the life of Jesus geographically, from his birth to the resurrection and ascension.

While reading the Gospels, I often found myself wondering: Where exactly did this happen? Which events took place near each other? How did Jesus’ ministry move across the region—and how do the four Gospel accounts connect?

That became the idea behind this project.

The map currently brings together 120 events from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, connected to biblical locations wherever the text allows them to be identified. Rather than reading the story only chapter by chapter, you can explore it through places, journeys, people, themes, and different phases of Jesus’ life.

Some of the main features:

• An interactive heatmap showing where events are concentrated
• Filters for Gospel, event type, person, region, setting, and location certainty
• A timeline covering seven phases from Jesus’ birth to his ascension
• Parallel Gospel accounts combined into a single event, while keeping each reference visible
• Search by location, event, person, or Bible passage
• Reconstructed journeys and ancient routes
• A detailed close-up of Jerusalem during the Passion narrative

Each event includes a short summary and links back to the relevant Bible passages. The goal is not to replace reading Scripture, but to provide another way into it—one that makes geography, movement, and connections across the Gospels easier to see.

It’s completely free, requires no account, and has no advertising or tracking.

You can explore it here:

https://sammyyamazaki.de/?lang=en

This is still an evolving project, and I would genuinely value feedback from people who study, teach, or simply enjoy reading the Bible. What would make a tool like this more useful to you? Are there connections or ways of exploring the Gospel accounts that you would like to see added?

I hope it helps some of you encounter these familiar stories from a fresh perspective.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a project called THIS WAY—an interactive map that lets you explore the life of Jesus geographically, from his birth to the resurrection and ascension.

While reading the Gospels, I often found myself wondering: Where exactly did this happen? Which events took place near each other? How did Jesus’ ministry move across the region—and how do the four Gospel accounts connect?

That became the idea behind this project.

The map currently brings together 120 events from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, connected to biblical locations wherever the text allows them to be identified. Rather than reading the story only chapter by chapter, you can explore it through places, journeys, people, themes, and different phases of Jesus’ life.

Some of the main features:

• An interactive heatmap showing where events are concentrated
• Filters for Gospel, event type, person, region, setting, and location certainty
• A timeline covering seven phases from Jesus’ birth to his ascension
• Parallel Gospel accounts combined into a single event, while keeping each reference visible
• Search by location, event, person, or Bible passage
• Reconstructed journeys and ancient routes
• A detailed close-up of Jerusalem during the Passion narrative

Each event includes a short summary and links back to the relevant Bible passages. The goal is not to replace reading Scripture, but to provide another way into it—one that makes geography, movement, and connections across the Gospels easier to see.

It’s completely free, requires no account, and has no advertising or tracking.

You can explore it here:

https://sammyyamazaki.de/?lang=en

This is still an evolving project, and I would genuinely value feedback from people who study, teach, or simply enjoy reading the Bible. What would make a tool like this more useful to you? Are there connections or ways of exploring the Gospel accounts that you would like to see added?

I hope it helps some of you encounter these familiar stories from a fresh perspective.

Sometimes out PP volunteers forget to change the stage monitor layout for the sermon.
So I used an iOS shortcut and an automation so when the Focus Mode on the pastors iPad is set to „On Stage“ the layout will change for him.

The way it works is this:
First you need a shortcut with the following action:
Get Contents of URL

As the URL you need to put in the following:

http://[IP-Adress]:[Port]/v1/stage/screen/[Screen-ID]/layout/[Layout-ID]

In my case it’s: http://192.168.178.242:50569/v1/stage/screen/0/layout/1

Then save.
Now you have to set up an automation in the shortcut app.

It’s basically: when a certain focus mode is activated execute the shortcut you just created.

And now, whenever the pastor wants to change the stage display layout he can. Just swipe down on the iPad. Change the Focus mode. And the layout changes. So he doesn’t have to request changing his view.

Thought that might help.

Oh!
The pastors iPad has to be on the same network as the PP Machine.