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 8:54, 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 8:50
And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
- Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
- 2 Peter 1:17
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I …
- Psalms 110:1
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- John 16:14
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
- 2 Corinthians 10:18
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
- Hebrews 5:4
And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
- John 5:22
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
- Acts 3:13
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the pres…
- John 5:31
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
- Daniel 7:13
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him…
- Philippians 2:9
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
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.