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 7:19, 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.
- John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- John 7:1
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- John 11:53
Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
- Matthew 12:14
Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
- Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgmen…
- Galatians 6:13
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
- Exodus 24:2
And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
- Deuteronomy 33:4
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
- John 7:25
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
- John 10:31
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
- John 5:45
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
- Matthew 23:2
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
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.