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 3:17, 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. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
- Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
- John 12:47
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
- John 6:57
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
- John 6:40
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up…
- John 6:29
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
- 1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
- John 20:21
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
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.