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 2:19, 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.
- Mark 14:58
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
- Mark 15:29
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
- Matthew 27:40
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
- Matthew 26:60
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
- Matthew 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies…
- John 10:17
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
- Acts 2:32
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
- Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- Acts 3:15
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
- 1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by…
- 1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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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.