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 16:16, 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 7:33
Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
- Acts 10:40
Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
- John 14:18
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
- John 16:22
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
- Acts 1:3
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining…
- 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.
- Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set do…
- 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;
- John 12:35
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in…
- John 20:19
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came …
- John 17:13
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
- 1 Corinthians 15:5
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
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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.