John is an AI
He’s built on Claude, made by Anthropic, and grounded in Greek and Hebrew lexicons. He can be wrong, so check what he says against your Bible. He isn’t a substitute for your pastor or your church.
AI Bible study companion
Scripture,
deeper.
Meet John, an AI Bible study companion with the depth of a seminary professor and the warmth of a trusted pastor. Open your Bible, point your camera at the page, and he walks you through it.
Free to download. Patmos Plus adds longer studies.
John
Bible study with John
καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγει αὐτοῖς [ὅτι] Οὐ χρείαν ἔχουσιν οἱ ἰσχύοντες ἰατροῦ ἀλλ᾽ οἱ κακῶς ἔχοντες· οὐκ ἦλθον καλέσαι δικαίους ἀλλὰ ἁμαρτωλούς.
“And Jesus, hearing this, said to them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.’”
ἰατρόςiatros, “physician, doctor”
Jesus reframes his entire table fellowship as a medical act, not a social endorsement. A doctor who refuses to be near sick people isn’t noble. He’s useless. The Pharisees think proximity to sinners threatens holiness; Jesus says proximity to sinners is the point of his mission. The doctor goes where the disease is.
How it works
Bring the Bible you already read.
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Open to any passage
Use the Bible on your desk, the one with your notes in the margins.
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Point your camera, or type it
Take a photo of the page and John finds the passage. You can also type a reference like Mark 1:15.
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Study it together
John reads the passage with you and answers your questions as you go.
What John brings
A seminary classroom for the Bible on your desk.
Original languages
Hebrew and Greek with transliteration, Strong’s numbers and the nuance English translations miss.
Cross-references
Not just verse numbers. John explains how each passage speaks to the one you’re reading.
Historical context
Who wrote it, who it was for, and what the first readers would have understood.
Every tradition
Reformed, Catholic, Orthodox, Wesleyan and Pentecostal readings, without forcing one on you.
A real study partner
Ask follow-up questions and keep going, including the hard passages.
- Questions? Read the FAQ
Start anywhere
Try Psalm 23, or the passage from Sunday’s sermon.
Why Patmos
For people who read the Bible every day.
Patmos is for Christians who read Scripture every day and want more than a devotional. Most of us never get to ask a Greek scholar what a word meant, or a historian what the first readers heard. John can answer those questions at your desk, any time you open your Bible.
The name comes from the island of Patmos, where the Apostle John received the Revelation. Our John is named in his honor. He isn’t the Apostle and doesn’t claim to be.
Patmos is meant to serve your church, not stand in for it. Your Bible is the authority, and your pastor is the shepherd God gave you.
Plainly
What John is, and what happens to your studies.
Your studies
Your conversations are saved so you can pick up where you left off. Anthropic doesn’t train its models on them.
You can delete your account and your private data from your account screen in the app. Some studies also leave an anonymous note about the verse in the public Patmos Commons, credited to John and never to you. Those notes stay after you delete your account.
Who makes Patmos
Built by Jon Mancini in North Haven, Connecticut.
Jon reads his Bible every day, and most of what Patmos does started at his own desk. Patmos is published by Mancini Tech Solutions, LLC.
Questions or ideas? Write to support@patmosbible.com. We read every message.
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