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 8:4, 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.
- Leviticus 14:2
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
- Luke 17:14
And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
- Luke 5:14
And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony …
- Leviticus 13:2
When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then h…
- Mark 7:36
And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
- Matthew 9:30
And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
- Mark 6:11
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I sa…
- John 10:37
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
- Mark 1:43
And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;
- Matthew 12:16
And charged them that they should not make him known:
- Matthew 10:18
And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
- Matthew 5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
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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.