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 20:34, 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.
- Matthew 9:29
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
- Hebrews 4:15
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without …
- Luke 22:51
And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
- Psalms 145:8
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
- Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inhe…
- Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
- Matthew 14:14
And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
- Matthew 8:15
And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
- Mark 7:33
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
- Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
- Luke 7:13
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
- Matthew 15:32
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing…
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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.