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Shepherd Bible API MCP Server

by simplecohortllc-bible
answering

Shepherd Bible API is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Bible translations, books, chapters, verses, and search

Uptime history 61 hours of history · worst hour 50%
61 hours agonow
98.9%
Uptime 24h
91 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
568 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add shepherd-bible-api --transport http https://bible.simplecohortllc.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shepherd-bible-api": {
      "url": "https://bible.simplecohortllc.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.shepherd-bible-api]
url = "https://bible.simplecohortllc.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shepherd-bible-api": {
      "url": "https://bible.simplecohortllc.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shepherd-bible-api": {
      "url": "https://bible.simplecohortllc.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

bible
bible_books
Return books and chapter counts for a translation.
bible_chapter
Return all verses, groupings, and red letter data for a chapter.
bible_search
Search for verses by keyword or exact match.
bible_translations
Return all available Bible translations.
bible_verse
Return a specific verse, with red letter data if available.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://bible.simplecohortllc.com/mcp streamable-http answering 538 ms 4 min ago

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Shepherd Bible API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Shepherd Bible API do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: bible_books, bible_chapter, bible_search, bible_translations, bible_verse. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Shepherd Bible API working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 92 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 568 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Shepherd Bible API?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Shepherd Bible API need an API key?
No. Shepherd Bible API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Shepherd Bible API?
It answers our handshake in 568 ms on average, which is faster than 19% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.