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 3:13, 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.
- Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established …
- Acts 2:34
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
- John 6:38
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
- John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
- 1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
- 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;
- Ephesians 4:9
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
- Romans 10:6
But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down fr…
- John 6:62
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
- John 3:31
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
- John 6:46
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
- John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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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.