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 5:38, 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.
- 1 John 2:14
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and…
- Deuteronomy 6:6
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
- John 12:44
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
- Isaiah 53:1
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
- Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
- James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
- Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all…
- John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
- Isaiah 49:7
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Ki…
- John 8:46
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
- John 8:37
I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
- John 1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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.