If I were to say three numbers, “3:16,” what would you say?

Wow! Some of you didn’t even say “John 3:16,” you just started quoting the verse: “For God so loved the world . . . “

If there is one Bible verse both locked down and totally lapsed Christians might know, it is John 3:16.

Thank you, Tim Tebow.

John 3:16 is held up at half –time in sports arenas. It is flashed on cardboard placards on freeway off-ramps. Tim Tebow found a creative new place to assert John 3:16 when he scraped out the three numbers in the black-out smears he made on his cheekbones before every one of his college football games.

We all know John 3:16.

But let me try again. Who can tell me John 3:15? Or John 3:17? Or John 3:14? Or 3:18?

If you can, you are the exceptions that prove the rule. You are a minuscule …