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 13:1, 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, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- John 12:23
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
- 1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
- John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
- John 16:28
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
- John 13:3
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
- Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved …
- John 18:4
Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
- 1 Corinthians 1:8
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- John 15:9
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
- John 17:1
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
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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.