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 13:44, 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.
- Proverbs 2:2
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
- Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- Philippians 3:7
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
- Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- Luke 14:33
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
- Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
- Matthew 19:29
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall rece…
- Proverbs 16:16
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
- Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
- Luke 18:23
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
- Revelation 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of th…
- Colossians 3:3
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
More to meet God in Matthew
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.