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Jesus wept. — John 11:35.
“Jesus Wept.”
The shortest verse in most English Bibles is just two words: “Jesus wept.” It appears in John 11:35, in the story of Lazarus’s death, right before Jesus raises him from the dead.
What is the shortest verse in the Bible?
👉 Jesus wept. — John 11:35.
Grief before the miracle
What makes this verse striking isn’t its length — it’s the moment it captures. Jesus already knows He’s about to raise Lazarus from the dead, yet when He sees Mary and the mourners weeping, He is “deeply moved” and weeps with them. It’s one of the clearest glimpses in the Gospels of Jesus’s full humanity: genuine grief, even in the middle of certain hope.