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 11:53, 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.
- Acts 9:23
And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
- Acts 5:33
When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
- John 11:47
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
- Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
- Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
- Nehemiah 13:21
Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came …
- Mark 14:1
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, …
- Nehemiah 4:16
And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shiel…
- Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
- Matthew 22:46
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
- Jeremiah 38:15
Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken u…
- Psalms 113:2
Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
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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.