I’ve been difficult myself all month to take a look at the Bible in a brand new and totally different method, to glean, to be taught, to know extra. I’m having loads of enjoyable with it!
I began with…
These lists had been loads of enjoyable to make and made me see issues in a brand new mild! 💡 Now I believe I’ll perform a little research on each the shortest verses within the Bible and the longest verses within the Bible.
Prepared?!
Let’s cowl the subject, what’s the shortest verse within the Bible? at the moment!
What’s the Shortest Verse within the Bible?
👉 Fast reply (both method you rely) is, “Jesus wept.” (ESV)
Counting by the variety of phrases
In the event you’re counting the shortest verse by the quantity of phrases, these two verses have two phrases every.
John 11:35 says, “Jesus wept.” It has fewer characters than the second within the record: 1 Thessalonians 5:16
Adopted by:
- Luke 20:30
- Job 3:2
- 1 Chronicles 1:25
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17
- Luke 17:32
These all have three phrases in them.
Counting by the variety of characters
In case you are counting the shortest verse by the quantity of characters, the shortest verse continues to be John 11:35 (with 11 characters). Nevertheless, the second shortest verse within the Bible could be Job 3:2 (13 characters).
Adopted by:
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16 (tied at 14 characters)
- Luke 20:30 (tied at 14 characters)
- 1 Chronicles 1:25 (17 characters)
- Luke 17:32 (20 characters)
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (21 characters)
Completely different variations
In the event you take note of totally different variations although, the NIV has Job 3:2 saying, “He mentioned:” (2 phrases; 8 characters) as an alternative of claiming, “And Job mentioned:” within the ESV, which might make it the shortest verse within the Bible.
So actually, the selection is as much as you if you wish to go by John 11:35 or Job 3:2. Each are brief verses! 😊
Extra brief verses
Listed below are some verses which have solely 4 phrases in them…
- Exodus 20:13 / Deuteronomy 5:17
- Exodus 20:15
- 1 Thessalonians 5:20
- 1 Thessalonians 5:25
- Hebrews 13:1
Nice brief verses to memorize
In the event you’re searching for some fast verses to your youngsters to memorize, listed here are just a few nice ones to start out with…
In the event you’re searching for some foundational verses for brand spanking new believers to memorize, listed here are some nice ones to start out with…
In the event you’re searching for some fast wins in your individual life to memorize, listed here are 25 nice verses to select and select from…
- Numbers 6:23
- Luke 1:37
- Psalm 25:4
- Colossians 3:2
- Psalm 56:3
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22
- Hebrews 13:25
- Psalm 119:105
- John 3:30
- Psalm 18:1
- Matthew 11:30
- Psalm 23:1
- Isaiah 26:4
- Genesis 1:1
- 1 Joh 4:19
- 2 Corinthians 5:7
- Matthew 5:17
- Psalm 25:1
- 1 Timothy 6:6
- Luke 6:36
- Romans 7:22
- Matthew 11:39
- 1 Corinthians 10:31
- 1 Peter 5:7
- Isaiah 40:29
Shortest chapter within the Bible to memorize
In the event you’re seeking to memorize a complete chapter of the Bible, right here’s an incredible one to start out with…
It has solely two verses and within the ESV, it has 28 phrases.
What does the shortest verse within the Bible, John 11:35, imply?
It’s exhausting to think about, God, who’s in Heaven, weeping. Heaven is meant to be a contented place. The Bible says there are not any tears in Heaven, however that’s solely a part of His deity. God is God who IS in Heaven, however He’s additionally omnipresent. He’s everybody without delay. He’s not sure by house, matter, or time. He’s not sure by something!
At the moment, God was Jesus in human type as a part of the Trinity, and as a human, He skilled unhappiness and wept. This wasn’t the one time He wept on earth; there are three or 4 recorded cases of Him weeping (although He might have cried extra typically; these are the cases recorded within the Bible).
- The Backyard of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-46, Mark 14:32-42, Luke 22:39-46)
- Lazarus (John 11:35)
- Over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41)
- Over His Dying on the Cross (Hebrews 5:7)
Sidenote: In Luke 22:44, it talks about Jesus being in nice misery and a few individuals say that Jesus sweat blood. Jesus didn’t sweat blood. We have to be very cautious to READ each WORD of the Bible and never gloss over it or go too shortly. The verse says, “…and his sweat grew to become like nice drops of blood falling all the way down to the bottom.” It grew to become LIKE blood. It was not blood.
Hebrews 5:7 could also be referring to The Backyard of Gethsemane, however I take the opinion that it DOESN’T consult with that event.
First, you need me to consider that Jesus solely cried ONCE about His upcoming dying on the cross? In all of 33 years, He solely wept as soon as over it?
Secondly, it says that His prayer was heard due to His reverence. In that second, Jesus, within the Backyard of Gethsemane was sweating like drops of blood, so profusely. He was crying out to His Father to take this cup from Him. The rationale God would have heard Him in these moments wouldn’t have been attributable to reverence, though His reverence was current. God would have heard Him due to His Ze’akah.
Ze’akah is a Hebrew phrase and it’s my absolute, #1 favourite phrase in Hebrew. It means to cry aloud with nice anguish. While you’re crying uncontrollably and also you’re simply in SO a lot intense, emotional ache you possibly can’t stand it, that’s Ze’akah. It’s these tears of intense ache and anguish.
I can promise you, that the FASTEST method to get God’s consideration is to cry on this method. When God hears this cry come, He’s immediately at your facet in a method you wouldn’t consider. He’s proper there with you. He hears your cry. He sees your ache. He’s there to assist.
The primary time, the phrase is launched within the Bible is within the Cain and Abel story. Abel’s blood cried from the bottom, Ze’Akah (Genesis 4). God heard that cry and banished Cain for killing Abel.
Moses cried Ze’akah in Exodus 17 when Amalek was attacking the Israelites and God reacted. God ALWAYS hears that cry and responds IMMEDIATELY!!!!
God would have been close to to Jesus throughout these moments due to His Ze’Akah, his intense, emotional ache, struggling, and anguish, not as a lot throughout that point due to Jesus’ reverence.
Jesus was begging, God was close to.
Both method, whether or not you’re taking the stance of three or 4 occasions within the Bible Jesus cried, the purpose is, He wept. He had feelings like us. He skilled ache, struggling, and loss.
One such time was with Lazarus. Verse 33 says “Jesus is deeply moved in his spirit and vastly troubled.”
Lazarus was His pal. Mary and Martha had been His associates. So seeing the ache inflicted upon them, prompted Him to be unhappy.
He was in all probability unhappy and cried for a lot of causes.
- Seeing all of the individuals comforting Mary and Martha might have been overwhelming to Him as a result of He cared so deeply for them.
- Seeing it in person who His pal, Lazarus, was now lifeless. The fact of what He knew to be true had set in, and shortly.
- Realizing that His associates needed to undergo by means of the lack of Lazarus and Lazarus dying to do a miracle in order that the individuals would consider in Him.
However I additionally assume there’s another reason you might not consider.
The Bible says that if we’re absent from the physique, we’re current with God (2 Corinthians 5:1-8). So Lazarus would have been with GOD in HEAVEN for 4 days.
That should have stung His coronary heart, loving Lazarus and understanding that Lazarus was blissful, excellent, with God, and needed to convey him BACK to this earthly life, which isn’t close to nearly as good as being with the Lord (Philippians 1:23)!
As a pal, and excellent Deity, He would have needed what was greatest for Lazarus and naturally, to be with God is greatest in that second. There’s nothing higher than to be with God, nevertheless, God allowed it for Jesus’ miracle to point out the individuals He’s who He says He’s, and it should have finally been for Lazarus’ greatest too. Romans 8:28 guarantees that. So it could possibly be that sending Lazarus again to earth gave him extra time to earn Heaven rewards, to be a godly instance to all, for the good thing about Mary and Martha and a myriad extra causes.
Both method, in God’s humanness, He noticed His pal was lifeless, He noticed the ache, struggling, and anguish of His associates, and He wept.
God cares a lot for us, a lot greater than we notice. It’s a great factor to always remind ourselves how MUCH God loves us!!! ❤️