Founded by Nick Hengeveld in 1993 at
Calvin College,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bible Gateway was initially planned as a static
HTML presentation of the
Bible. In 1995, the site moved to the new Gospel Communications Network (a part of
Gospel Communications International). The Bible Gateway website was originally written as a
CGI script in
Perl. Later versions were written in
C++,
PHP, and
Ruby. Bible Gateway gradually expanded its database by acquiring the rights to more English and foreign language translations, including translations published by
International Bible Society,
The Lockman Foundation, and
Wycliffe Global Alliance. In late 2008,
Zondervan (the
Evangelical Christian publisher of the
NIV and
TNIV Bible and a wholly owned subsidiary of
HarperCollins) acquired Bible Gateway from Gospel Communications. The sale of the site came after two years of continued financial difficulties on the part of the donation-driven GospelCom ministry. In June 2009,
Joseph Park was hired as president of BibleGateway.com. Park was co-founder and former CEO of
Kozmo.com, , Bible Gateway hosts 232 versions of the Bible, in 74 different languages. Its
Alexa ranking was #744. In September 2025, undisclosed "technical issues" resulted in Bible Gateway being "unavailable to consumers in the United Kingdom and European Union". The company stated that they were "working on a new solution". Later in the month the website was accessible again both in the United Kingdom and the EU. ==References==