John 12:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

Cross References

Job 14:8

Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

Psalm 22:15

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

Psalm 72:16

May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

Isaiah 28:28

Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.

Romans 14:9

And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.