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 3:31, 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 8:23
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
- Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
- Romans 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
- John 6:33
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
- 1 John 4:5
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
- John 3:12
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
- Philippians 2:9
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
- John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, w…
- Revelation 19:16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
- John 5:21
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
- John 16:27
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
- Acts 10:36
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
More to meet God in John
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.