John 12:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

Cross References

Job 14:8

Though its root grows old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,

Psalm 22:15

my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 72:16

May there be abundance of grain in the land; may it wave on the tops of the mountains; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field.

Isaiah 28:28

Grain is crushed for bread, but one does not thresh it forever; one drives the cart wheel and horses over it but does not pulverize it.

Romans 14:9

For to this end Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.