King James Version

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That’s the shortest verse in the King James Version, consisting of only two words: “Jesus wept.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

The King James Version of the Bible is rejected by many Christians — not to mention Jews, as Allen noted.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

She preferred the King James Version of the Bible to all others for its lyrical language, he said, and her favorite authors included Jane Austen and C.S.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

In the 17th century A.D., its appearance in the King James Version of the Bible helped legitimize the unicorn, by then a white-bodied equine mystic, tamed only by a virgin’s hands.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

This confession is a natural sequence of the authorized King James Version of the Bible in 1611.

From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Flickinger, Robert Elliott