Well, with the recent launch of John Piper's new book, Reading of the Bible Super Naturally,

we have a lot of Bible reading questions in the APJ inbox, and we love it.

Keep sending those in to us, including this question that comes in to us from a main

name Philip.

Dear Pastor John, I've really enjoyed the way you go through individual verses and explain

them very clearly by breaking them down and explaining each part.

I understand that meditating on small parts of Scripture can be helpful, as we suck

out all the nourishment from it.

But sometimes my problem is in understanding the entire chapter or larger sections of

the Bible.

I read something like John 8, and although I can understand small parts of it, I really

get lost and fail to follow.

The entire flow of Jesus' arguments or where the chapter is going.

Sometimes reading a Psalm can be quite incoherent to me too, and then don't quite get how

one sentence flows into another.

So could you help me?

Help me figure out ways to understand larger sections of Scripture as a whole rather

than just small chunks disconnected from other parts.

Let me see if I can help.

First with an analogy, namely an analogy of a jigsaw puzzle, and then with an exhortation

about the hard work of seeing a whole chapter whole and then give an example from my own

experience.

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