I've Been Thinking About This…

I’ve used Scott Yang’s excellent “Scripturize It!” Bookmarklet in my browsers (Opera & Firefox) for some time now. Whenever I bump into a web page (for instance, a blog page) that has a Scripture reference on it and I want to see the Scripture itself, I click the “Scripturize It!” bookmarklet and it converts all references on the page into links. Then I click on the text I want to read and it turns into a popup box with the Scripture inside it. It’s brilliant.

For the blog he also created a “Scripturizer” that works with WordPress. So apparently did two other people (and I’m cutting/pasting from Scott’s web page here):

MeanDean from Heal Your Church Website has been thinking of starting a SourceForge project on scripturizer, to centralise development in various programming languages. Glen Davis from Chi Alpha Fellowship @ Standford has also implemented an independent version in PHP, which also includes other improvements. Hopefully all the developments will roll into one soon.

So it looks like Dean is the keeper of the code at this point, and you can go here to download it if you run a WordPress blog. This supports a sizeable list of versions and you can choose from any of them:

• AMP (Amplified Version)
• ASV (American Standard Version)
• CEV (Contemporary English Version)
• DARBY (Darby Translation)
• ESV (English Standard Version)
• HCSB (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
• KJ21 (21st Century King James Version)
• KJV (King James Version)
• LXX (Septuagint Greek Old Testament)
• MSG (The Message Bible)
• NA26 (Nestle-Aland 26th edition Greek New Testament)
• NASB (New American Standard Bible)
• NET (New English Translation)
• NIRV (New International Reader’s Version)
• NIV (New International Version)
• NIV-UK (New International Version – United Kingdom)
• NKJV (New King James version)
• NLT (New Living Translation)
• NRSV (New Revised Standard Version)
• WE (Worldwide English New Testament)
• WYC (Wycliffe New Testament)
• YLT (Young’s Literal Translation)

I’ve just moved over from the NASV to the ESV about a year ago, so ESV is the version of choice on this site usually.

In order to have ESV Scripture show up in-line, you need to turn on what’s called the ‘IP keyless option’, which is good for 500 hits/day. With this feature, you find the ‘+/-‘ button to expand text inline. Without it, you have to leave the site and click through to the ESV site.

Sometimes technology can be so sweet.

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