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 Matthew 13:3, 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.
- Mark 4:2
And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
- Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
- Mark 4:13
And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
- Ezekiel 24:3
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
- Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
- 2 Samuel 12:1
And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
- Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
- Matthew 13:53
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.
- Mark 4:33
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
- Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went thei…
- Judges 9:8
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
- Luke 8:5
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
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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.