Why does Biblical context matter?

Have you heard the saying, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees?” Simply put, literary context is what comes before or after a text, and the better you understand the whole, the better you can understand a part. In fact, it’s easy to get lost in the details and miss the bigger picture. Literary context invites you to look around. The Bible was not written as disconnected verses, but as literary works that were meant to be understood as a whole. Literary context is all about looking at what surrounds a text in order to better understand it.