bible json format file local json files that may be needed when building your own Bible project
English Basic English Full Bible (bible_en.json) Old Testament (old_bible_en.json) New Testament (new_bible_en.json)
JSON
The JSON files are also encoded using UTF-8 and built in the following structure:
[
{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapters":
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham."
},
........
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;"
}
}
......
}
......
]
You can get the number of the chapter and verse using the array index.