Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the wonderful John by the way. Welcome John by the way.

Thanks. I wonder how wonderful I am. Thank you.

You are wonderful. The question for today's Follow Him Favorites, John, is what are the two shortest verses in Scripture?

And interestingly, they're both in this week's lesson. So tell us, what are the two shortest verses in Scripture?

Wow, they are in John. We have Jesus wept, two syllables. It's kind of like Hank Smith, two syllables. I have more syllables in my last name than Hank Smith in his whole name.

The whole name.

But yeah, here's Jesus wept, two syllables. Why was he weeping, Hank?

Yeah. So this is at the death of Lazarus. Everyone is around and he sees everybody weeping. He sees Mary and Martha weeping because Lazarus is their brother and he's gone.

And it says that Jesus wept. When I was a seminary teacher, I used to have students want to do this verse for their devotional.

Yeah, stand up and say the devotional for today is John 1135 Jesus wept and they'd usually laugh. They think that was funny.

And I would say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, stay up there. Why is Jesus weeping? They would say, I don't know. I'm like, well, look it up. Let's look it up.

So we go to John 1135 and they say, well, he's weeping because Lazarus is dead.

I'm like, well, does that make a lot of sense? Because Lazarus is about to be alive. He is 10 seconds or, you know, 10 minutes from being alive.

So could Jesus be weeping for that? And eventually we would come to the conclusion that Jesus was not weeping because Lazarus was dead, but he was his that much empathy for the people around him that he's able to feel what they feel.

Perfect. It always reminds me of Alma the elder after he talks to the wicked priest of King Noah and some of them believe and he takes him out to the waters of Mormon and says, here's the waters of Mormon.

And are you willing to come into the fold of God and be called as people and one of the things he says are willing to mourn with they that mourn.

And that's exactly what Jesus was doing. They're showing the empathy you just mentioned.

Yeah, mourn with those that mourn. I love that, John. We could be better about listening so closely to other people that we start to feel what they feel and start to put ourselves in their position.

And it's so affirming for them that if you can say, wow, I've been there. I know what that feels like. Or I don't know exactly what that feels like, but wow, that can be so helpful to them to help them carry that so validating.

John, what is the second shortest verse in scripture? Well, I guess that would be Luke 1732. Remember lots wife. Remember lots wife.

John, what is Jesus talking about? What are we remembering there? Well, we talked about this. I suspect last year, quite a bit, but they're leaving Sodom and Gomorrah, lots wife.

Looked back, Elder Holland gives this beautiful talk called remember lots wife where he says it wasn't just the she looked back. She wanted to go back.

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