ESV Bible blog had a post today with the social network of the new testament. I’ve inserted a small version of the graph below (large version):

I’m not very religious and have a very limited knowledge in this area, but from what I can tell Jesus is at the top of the heirarchy (obviously) and surrounding him are his disciples (Matthew, John, Peter, etc.) - much like the structure of a large organization, and through them, Jesus connects with everyone else. A more interesting graph would be one that follows the Bible and shows how all the connections formed - in what order and so forth so you could tell if he had all these connections because of his message, or he got his message out because he initially had all these connections. Arguments in the comments could be had over whether Jesus was a salesman, connector, maven or all three, because he really was selling and disseminating an idea at that time.

I don’t want to start any religious debates but I thought this was a very interesting graph. Furthermore, the site that created it, Many Eyes, which judging from the domain looks to be part of IBM, has numerous data sets and corresponding visualizations.