Your query is encoded into a 768-dimensional vector by
BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5, a 110M-parameter sentence transformer. The vector
captures meaning, not surface tokens — so paraphrases, metaphors, and
even misquotes can land on the right verse without sharing any words with it.
The same model has already encoded every passage in the New Testament as a sliding window of three verses. We score your query against all of them with cosine similarity and return the closest match plus its linked Tyndale editorial asset.
Before encoding, a small OCR pass converts digit-for-letter scan errors
(G0d → God) so noisy print sources still match.
Score interpretation:
Type a paraphrase, a metaphor, or OCR-noisy text from the Gospel of John 1–4. Emmaus matches it to the closest scripture passage and surfaces the linked Tyndale study asset.
John 1–4 (NLT) · Tyndale Open Library Notes · all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · runs fully offline
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