Scripture access built for AI.

Read scripture, resolve references, search verses and explore dictionaries, commentaries and topic bookmarks. GetBible MCP 2.0 covers all nine API contracts through one Python package and a shared MCP interface.

Scripture, query and search support v2 and v3. Dictionaries, commentaries and bookmarks support v1. Public access is free, with no account or token required by default.

Remote connection

Project and API documentation: getBible.net. MCP usage guide: getBible.net/mcp.

Official public MCP endpoint: https://mcp.getbible.net/

Select Streamable HTTP in your MCP client and enter that URL exactly. The root / is the protocol endpoint; do not append /mcp or an API version. Clients connecting to another GetBible MCP host use that host's complete endpoint URL.

Anonymous requests use the same limits as the public search service. Honor HTTP 429 and Retry-After. Contact GetBible administrators for an optional token for MCP or another endpoint; see the access and rate-limit policy.

Scripture tools default to upstream v3. Select v2 explicitly when needed; dictionary, commentary and bookmark operations use v1.

Local connection

Install the GetBible MCP package and configure the client to launch:

getbible-mcp --transport stdio

Discover, inspect, read

Discover available APIs, inspect an operation's complete contract, then call it. Familiar scripture tools remain available, and v3 results retain lexical tokens, spans and paragraph markers.

Content freshness

The MCP does not persist upstream results. Downstream caches must honor the 30-day maximum, shorter HTTP freshness and published checksums. Query and search are non-cacheable by default.

Preserve translation and study-module rights from their catalogs and metadata. See the cache policy and usage policy.