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 11:11, 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, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Daniel 12:2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- John 11:13
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
- John 11:43
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
- Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
- 1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
- Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Matthew 9:24
He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
- Mark 5:39
And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
- Exodus 33:11
And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of N…
- John 11:3
Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
More to meet God in John
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.