I’ve been difficult myself all month to take a look at the Bible in a brand new and totally different manner, to glean, to be taught, to grasp extra. I’m having a number of enjoyable with it!
I began with…
These lists have been a number of enjoyable to make and made me see issues in a brand new gentle! 💡 Now I believe I’ll do a little analysis 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 this time!
What’s the shortest verse within the Bible?
👉 Fast reply (both manner 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 checklist: 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 into consideration totally different variations although, the NIV has Job 3:2 saying, “He stated:” (2 phrases; 8 characters) as an alternative of claiming, “And Job stated:” 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 quick verses! 😊
Extra quick verses
Listed here 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 quick verses to memorize
In the event you’re searching for some fast verses on your youngsters to memorize, listed here are just a few nice ones to begin 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 begin with…
In the event you’re searching for some fast wins in your personal life to memorize, listed here are 25 nice verses to choose 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 trying to memorize a whole chapter of the Bible, right here’s an important one to begin 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 laborious to think about, God, who’s in Heaven, weeping. Heaven is meant to be a contented place. The Bible says there aren’t 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 area, 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 disappointment and wept. This wasn’t the one time He wept on earth; there are three or 4 recorded situations of Him weeping (although He could have cried extra typically; these are the situations 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 Loss of life on the Cross (Hebrews 5:7)
Sidenote: In Luke 22:44, it talks about Jesus being in nice misery and a few folks 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 confer with that event.
First, you need me to imagine 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 explanation God would have heard Him in these moments wouldn’t have been resulting from 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 may’t stand it, that’s Ze’akah. It’s these tears of intense ache and anguish.
I can promise you, that the FASTEST strategy to get God’s consideration is to cry on this manner. When God hears this cry come, He’s immediately at your facet in a manner you wouldn’t imagine. 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 manner, whether or not you are 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 drastically troubled.”
Lazarus was His buddy. Mary and Martha have been His associates. So seeing the ache inflicted upon them, precipitated Him to be unhappy.
He was in all probability unhappy and cried for a lot of causes.
- Seeing all of the folks comforting Mary and Martha may have been overwhelming to Him as a result of He cared so deeply for them.
- Seeing it in individual that His buddy, Lazarus, was now lifeless. The truth of what He knew to be true had set in, and shortly.
- Understanding that His associates needed to endure via the lack of Lazarus and Lazarus dying to do a miracle in order that the folks would imagine in Him.
However I additionally assume there’s another reason chances are you’ll 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 will need to have stung His coronary heart, loving Lazarus and realizing that Lazarus was completely happy, good, with God, and needed to carry him BACK to this earthly life, which isn’t close to nearly as good as being with the Lord (Philippians 1:23)!
As a buddy, and excellent Deity, He would have needed what was finest for Lazarus and naturally, to be with God is finest in that second. There’s nothing higher than to be with God, nonetheless, God allowed it for Jesus’ miracle to indicate the folks He’s who He says He’s, and it will need to have in the end been for Lazarus’ finest too. Romans 8:28 guarantees that. So it may very well 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 manner, in God’s humanness, He noticed His buddy 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 understand. It’s an excellent factor to consistently remind ourselves how MUCH God loves us!!! ❤️