They all prayed
By MT Cooper I learned early on in my Christian life that the shortest verse in the Bible was “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). It wasn’t until studying Greek that I discovered that John 11:35 is three words, although one of them is a single letter definite article. The actual shortest verse in the Greek NT is 1 Thessalonians 5:17. ln English it is often translated with three words, “pray without ceasing” (ESV) although in Greek it is only two. You can get it to two words in English easily enough, “pray unceasingly,” but then you have competition for the shortest verse. A Digression The real surprise, however, occurred when learning that the Bible was not divided into chapters and verses until the 1500s! And for good reason. With the emergence of the printing press making the Bible more accessible, chapter and verse divisions made studying and recalling the location of thoughts and stories easier. Yet, for most of the Bible’s history, people had no idea about the shortest verse because there