Here is comfort, high as heaven, stronger than death! What! Mercy for all? for Zaccheus, a public robber? for Mary Magdalene, a common harlot? Methinks I hear one say, “Then I, even I, may hope for mercy!” (from Wesley's sermon "Salvation by Faith", III.6; quoted in Derek J. Tidball, Builders & Fools: Leadership the Bible way. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1999, 31).

When i got to the genealogies in Chronicles in my daily Bible readings, i figured i'd try to have some fun with them, since i usually find them rather dry. So i decided to use the automatic graph drawing package graphviz to create a visualisation of the data in the genealogies. The results so far, which can be seen in the attached diagram, are quite interesting.