John 12:24

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Cross References

Job 14:8

Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 72:16

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

Isaiah 28:28

Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.

Romans 14:9

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