About Nate

Hi, I'm Nate Jurewicz. Let me be honest right up front. I'm probably one of the least qualified people on earth to edit a study Bible.

I don't have a PhD. I don't have a seminary degree. I went to Bible college for one year, got straight A's, and then dropped out. So far I speak one word of Greek and one word of Hebrew. It's the same word: amen. Only about 5,400 Greek words and 8,000 Hebrew words to go!

So why should you listen to me? Good question. I asked God the same thing.

God has a long history of picking the wrong guy

Moses had a speech problem. David was the youngest kid in the family, stuck out in the field with the sheep. Peter was a fisherman who smelled like the job. When the religious leaders met Peter and John, the Bible says they saw these "unschooled, ordinary men" and "took note that these men had been with Jesus." That's Acts 4:13.

I'm not Peter and certainly not Moses (Moses was the most humble man on earth according to scripture but that verse was written by Moses... go figure). But I'm definitely unschooled and ordinary. I'm just hoping the second half of that verse applies too.

I grew up in the church

I'm a pastor's kid. My dad is an ordained minister who never pastored a church. He worked as a locksmith instead, which is a pretty good job for a guy who spent his life telling people about the One who holds the keys.

Every morning my dad sat down with his Bible and a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats. He'd tap the cover and say, "This is my owner's manual." I didn't know it then, but he was naming this Bible about 30 years early.

Like a lot of church kids, I sat through thousands of sermons. And I still missed half of what was going on in there.

Why I'm making this Bible

I wanted a study Bible that was idiot proof. I say that with love, because I was the idiot.

What sets the Bible apart from every other religious book is prophecy. By my count, there are 1,052 prophecies in the Bible. Only 195 of them haven't happened yet. All the rest already came true.

Your horoscope told you that you'd meet a tall stranger. That was the UPS guy. The Bible named a town, a bloodline, and a time window hundreds of years ahead, and then it happened. I believe that's a math problem no critic can explain away. A book that does that wasn't just "written by man."

Here's the problem: most people miss it

You can read Isaiah 53 and have no clue you just read a play by play of the crucifixion, written about 700 years early. That's like finding a newspaper from the 1300s with last year's Super Bowl score in it. Then you get to the New Testament and Jesus fulfills prophecy over 400 times, and most readers never connect the dots.

Most people also don't know which prophecies haven't happened yet. They don't know which verses are backed up by archaeology you can go look at. And they don't notice how often Jesus quoted the Old Testament, because He did it constantly.

I didn't know most of this either. That's the whole point. If a pastor's kid with a year of Bible college could miss it, anybody can.

So we connected the dots. Every prophecy points to where it came true. Every fulfillment points back to where it was first promised. The archaeology is right there on the page with real photos. You don't need a degree. You just need to be able to read and see colors.

How a guy with one Greek word made a study Bible

I stood on the shoulders of giants. The Berean Standard Bible team did the hard translation work, and our text starts from theirs. Two thousand years of scholars, archaeologists and pastors did the digging.

And yes, I used AI to help put it all together. Some theologians are going to hate that. That's fine. Martin Luther used the hottest new tech of his day too. It was called the printing press, and the religious leaders hated that too.

The robot helped with the heavy lifting. The robot is not the Holy Spirit. That's why the first draft is free online, so you can check every word yourself, just like the Bereans did in Acts 17:11.

What I do for a living

The Apostle Paul made tents so he could preach without asking anyone for a paycheck. I'm a real estate agent in Tampa. Same idea, fewer tents.

I also work as a journalist, which means I ask a lot of questions and I don't scare easily. Both come in handy when you're making a Bible that some people are going to argue about.

One more thing. I juggle.

Yes, really. I can keep 5 balls in the air at once. That turns out to be great training for running a real estate business, a ministry, and a 2,100 page Bible project all at the same time.

Is juggling biblical? Paul said, "I have become all things to all people, so that by all possible means I might save some." That's 1 Corinthians 9:22. He never said juggler. But he never said not juggler, either.

And if this whole Bible thing doesn't work out, I can always do kids' birthday parties.

So that's me

I'm not a scholar. I'm not a famous pastor. I'm a regular guy who fell in love with the owner's manual and wants you to love it too.

If that sounds like your kind of Bible guy, grab my free highlighting guide, read the first draft, and help us get this thing printed.

Thanks for reading. It's really not that big of a deal. Except it kind of is.