diff --git a/src/today.sh b/src/today.sh
index cb9c9162..25c14d03 100755
--- a/src/today.sh
+++ b/src/today.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Do some prep work
+command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+  echo >&2 "We require jq for this script to run, but it's not installed.  Aborting."
+  exit 1
+}
 command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
   echo >&2 "We require git for this script to run, but it's not installed.  Aborting."
   exit 1
@@ -11,13 +15,49 @@ command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
 }
 
 # global config options
-DRYRUN=0
+DRY_RUN=0
+# translation version
+VERSION="kjv"
+# scripture
+TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE=''
 
 # check if we have options
 while :; do
   case $1 in
   --dry)
-    DRYRUN=1
+    DRY_RUN=1
+    ;;
+  -s | --scripture) # Takes an option argument; ensure it has been specified.
+    if [ "$2" ]; then
+      TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE=$2
+      shift
+    else
+      echo >&2 '"--scripture" requires a non-empty option argument.'
+      exit 17
+    fi
+    ;;
+  -s=?* | --scripture=?*)
+    TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE=${1#*=} # Delete everything up to "=" and assign the remainder.
+    ;;
+  -s= | --scripture=) # Handle the case of an empty --scripture=
+    echo >&2 '"--scripture=" requires a non-empty option argument.'
+    exit 17
+    ;;
+  -v | --version) # Takes an option argument; ensure it has been specified.
+    if [ "$2" ]; then
+      VERSION=$2
+      shift
+    else
+      echo >&2 '"--version" requires a non-empty option argument.'
+      exit 17
+    fi
+    ;;
+  -v=?* | --version=?*)
+    VERSION=${1#*=} # Delete everything up to "=" and assign the remainder.
+    ;;
+  -v= | --version=) # Handle the case of an empty --version=
+    echo >&2 '"--version=" requires a non-empty option argument.'
+    exit 17
     ;;
   *) # Default case: No more options, so break out of the loop.
     break ;;
@@ -28,6 +68,7 @@ done
 #██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ DATE TODAY ███
 # must set the time to Namibian :)
 TODAY=$(TZ="Africa/Windhoek" date '+%A %d-%B, %Y')
+TODAY_FOLDER=$(TZ="Africa/Windhoek" date '+%D')
 
 #█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ SCRIPT PATH ███
 DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
@@ -36,78 +77,154 @@ DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 SORTED="$DIR/SCRIPTURE"
 USED="$DIR/SCRIPTURE_USED"
 TMP="$DIR/.TMP"
+SCRIPTURE_DIR="$DIR/../scripture/${VERSION}/${TODAY_FOLDER}"
 
-#██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ RANDOM ███
-# set a random temp file
-sort -R -k1 -b "${SORTED}" >"${TMP}"
-# get the first line
-VERSE=$(head -n 1 "${TMP}")
-# test behaviour
-if (("$DRYRUN" == 1)); then
-  echo "selected: $VERSE"
-else
-  # remove the verse
-  sed -i -e '1,1d' "${TMP}"
-  # add to used verses
-  [ -f "${USED}" ] && echo "$VERSE" >>"${USED}" || echo "$VERSE" >"${USED}"
-fi
-
-#█████████████████████████████████████████████████████ SIX MONTH RETENTION ███
-# check test behaviour
-if (("$DRYRUN" == 0)); then
-  # count the number of verse in used file
-  LINES_NR=$(wc -l <"${USED}")
-  if [ "$LINES_NR" -gt 182 ]; then
+#█████████████████████████████████████████████████ GET SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY ███
+# only load if not already given
+if [ -z "${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE}" ]; then
+  #████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ RANDOM ███
+    # set a random temp file
+    sort -R -k1 -b "${SORTED}" >"${TMP}"
     # get the first line
-    VERSE_BACK=$(head -n 1 "${USED}")
-    # remove the verse
-    sed -i -e '1,1d' "${USED}"
-    # add add back to the pile
-    echo "$VERSE_BACK" >>"${TMP}"
+    TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE=$(head -n 1 "${TMP}")
+    # only if not a test
+    if (("$DRY_RUN" == 0)); then
+      # remove the verse
+      sed -i -e '1,1d' "${TMP}"
+      # add to used verses
+      [ -f "${USED}" ] && echo "$TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE" >>"${USED}" || echo "$TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE" >"${USED}"
+    fi
+
+  #███████████████████████████████████████████████████ SIX MONTH RETENTION ███
+  # check test behaviour
+  if (("$DRY_RUN" == 0)); then
+    # count the number of verse in used file
+    LINES_NR=$(wc -l <"${USED}")
+    if [ "$LINES_NR" -gt 182 ]; then
+      # get the first line
+      VERSE_BACK=$(head -n 1 "${USED}")
+      # remove the verse
+      sed -i -e '1,1d' "${USED}"
+      # add add back to the pile
+      echo "$VERSE_BACK" >>"${TMP}"
+    fi
   fi
+
+  #█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ SORT BACK ███
+  # check test behaviour
+  if (("$DRY_RUN" == 0)); then
+    # store back for next time
+    sort -h -b -k1 "${TMP}" >"${SORTED}"
+  fi
+  # remove the temp file
+  rm -f "${TMP}"
 fi
 
-#███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ SORT BACK ███
-# check test behaviour
-if (("$DRYRUN" == 0)); then
-  # store back for next time
-  sort -h -b -k1 "${TMP}" >"${SORTED}"
+#█████████████████████████████████████████████ SHOW WHAT SCRIPTURE SELECTED ███
+if (("$DRY_RUN" == 1)); then
+  echo "selected: $TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE"
+  echo "version: $VERSION"
 fi
-# remove the temp file
-rm -f "${TMP}"
 
 #███████████████████████████████████████████████████████ GET SCRIPTURE TEXT ███
 # Get the verses from the getBible API
-VERSES=$(bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getbible/getverse/master/src/chapter.sh) "${VERSE}")
+TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_TEXT=$(bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getbible/getverse/master/src/chapter.sh) -s="\"${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE}\"" -v="${VERSION}" )
 
 #███████████████████████████████████████████████████████ GET SCRIPTURE NAME ███
 # Get the verses name from the getBible API
-NAME=$(bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getbible/getverse/master/src/name.sh) "${VERSE}")
+NAME=$(bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getbible/getverse/master/src/name.sh) -s="\"${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE}\"" -v="${VERSION}" )
 
 #████████████████████████████████████████████ SET TODAY'S SCRIPTURE IN HTML ███
-HTML="<strong>${NAME}</strong>
-${VERSES//$'\n'/ }
+HTML="<strong>${NAME}</strong><br />
+${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_TEXT//$'\n'/ }<br /><br />
+<a id=\"daily-scripture-link\" href=\"https://t.me/s/daily_scripture\">${TODAY}</a>"
+
+#████████████████████████████████████████████ SET TODAY'S SCRIPTURE IN JSON ███
+# convert text to json
+IFS=$'\n'; TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_ARRAY=( $TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_TEXT )
+TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_JSON='[]'
+for line in "${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_ARRAY[@]}"; do
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2001
+  text_nr=$(echo "${line}" | sed 's@^[^0-9]*\([0-9]\+\).*@\1@')
+  text="${line#$text_nr }"
+  TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_JSON="$(
+      jq <<<"$TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_JSON" -c \
+        --arg nr "$text_nr" \
+        --arg text "$text" '
+  			. += [{
+  				nr: $nr,
+  				text: $text
+  			}]
+  		'
+    )"
+done
+# build the json object
+JSON='{}';  JSON="$(
+    jq <<<"$JSON" -c \
+      --arg name "${NAME}" \
+      --argjson scripture "${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_JSON}"  \
+      --arg version "${VERSION}" \
+      --arg date "${TODAY}" \
+      --arg telegram "daily_scripture" \
+      --arg source "https://github.com/trueChristian/daily-scripture" '
+      {
+        name: $name,
+        scripture: $scripture,
+        version: $version,
+        date: $date,
+        telegram: $telegram,
+        source: $source
+      }
+    '
+  )"
+
+#██████████████████████████████████████████████ SET TODAY'S SCRIPTURE IN TG ███
+TG="<strong>${NAME}</strong>
+${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_TEXT//$'\n'/ }
 
 <a id=\"daily-scripture-link\" href=\"https://t.me/daily_scripture\">${TODAY}</a>"
 
 #████████████████████████████████████████ SET TODAY'S SCRIPTURE IN MARKDOWN ███
 MARKDOWN="**${NAME}**
 
-${VERSES//$'\n'/ }
+${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE_TEXT//$'\n'/ }
 
 [${TODAY}](https://t.me/s/daily_scripture)"
 
 #███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ SET FILES ███
 
 # check test behaviour
-if (("$DRYRUN" == 1)); then
+if (("$DRY_RUN" == 1)); then
+  echo "===================================================="
+  echo "selected: ${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE}"
+  echo "version: ${VERSION}"
+  echo "===================================================="
   echo "${HTML}"
   echo "----------------------------------------------------"
+  jq <<<"$JSON" -S .
+  echo "----------------------------------------------------"
+  echo "${TG}"
+  echo "----------------------------------------------------"
   echo "${MARKDOWN}"
 else
-  echo "${HTML}" >README.html
-  echo "${MARKDOWN}" >README.md
-
+  # update the default if this is kjv
+  if [ "${VERSION}" = 'kjv' ]; then
+    echo "${HTML}" >README.html
+    jq <<<"$JSON" -S . >README.json
+    echo "${TG}" >README.tg
+    echo "${MARKDOWN}" >README.md
+    echo "${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE}" >README.today
+  fi
+  # make sure the folders exist
+  mkdir -p "${SCRIPTURE_DIR}"
+  # set today's verse to persistent state
+  echo "${HTML}" >"${SCRIPTURE_DIR}/scripture.html"
+  jq <<<"$JSON" -S . >"${SCRIPTURE_DIR}/scripture.json"
+  echo "${TG}" >"${SCRIPTURE_DIR}/scripture.tg"
+  echo "${MARKDOWN}" >"${SCRIPTURE_DIR}/scripture.md"
+  echo "${TODAY_S_SCRIPTURE}" >"${SCRIPTURE_DIR}/scripture.today"
+  # make sure to add new files and folders
+  git add .
   git commit -am"${TODAY}"
   git push
 fi