Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Matthew 16:1

“The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.”

Matthew 16:1 (KJV)

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 16:1, 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 passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Matthew 16. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Luke 11:16And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
  • Acts 4:1And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
  • Matthew 16:6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
  • Mark 8:11And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
  • John 8:6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
  • Luke 11:53And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
  • John 6:30They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
  • Luke 11:29And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
  • Luke 20:23But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
  • Acts 5:17Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
  • Luke 12:54And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
  • Luke 20:27Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
  • Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resu…

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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.