Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in John 1:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
- Revelation 19:13
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
- Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
- John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- 1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of th…
- Revelation 22:13
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
- John 1:2
The same was in the beginning with God.
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.