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The Bible starts with a wedding

The Bible begins with a wedding and ends with one. Here is the thread that ties them together.

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The Bible starts with a wedding: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 7 passages of the Bible, from Genesis 2:24 to Revelation 22:17. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

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  1. 1 Genesis 2:24

    For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

    In Eden, God makes the woman and brings her to the man: the first wedding in the Bible.

  2. 2 Isaiah 62:5

    For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

    Centuries later, Isaiah uses a wedding to describe how God feels about His people.

    • Isaiah 62:4 → Revelation 21:2 · 12 reader votes

  3. 3 John 3:29

    The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

    Jesus’ first sign was at a wedding in Cana. Now John the Baptist describes Jesus as the bridegroom.

    • John 3:29 → Isaiah 62:4–5 · 5 reader votes

  4. 4 Ephesians 5:32

    This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

    Paul quotes Genesis 2 about marriage, then says what it was pointing to.

    • Genesis 2:24 → Ephesians 5:28–31 · 77 reader votes
    • Ephesians 5:32 → Isaiah 62:4–5 · 7 reader votes

  5. 5 Revelation 19:9

    Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

    At the end, Revelation pictures a wedding feast for the Lamb.

    • Ephesians 5:32 → Revelation 19:7 · 15 reader votes
    • John 3:29 → Revelation 19:7–9 · 15 reader votes

  6. 6 Revelation 21:2

    I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

    John’s vision of the new Jerusalem uses the same picture again.

    • Ephesians 5:32 → Revelation 21:2 · 10 reader votes

  7. 7 Revelation 22:17

    The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.

    The Bible’s last invitation comes from the bride herself.

    • Revelation 22:17 → Revelation 21:2 · 8 reader votes

From the first page to the last it is one love story: Jesus is the Bridegroom and His people are the bride. And the last page ends with an invitation.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

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