I have a memory of a joke in a TV show or movie where someone is at a (sporting?) event holding up a sign saying “John 3:14” (instead of the more typical “John 3:16”).
I think the joke was that the event was snake-themed in some way. I thought it might have been the “Whacking Day” episode of the Simpsons, but my googling is coming up empty. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
At a lot of sporting events, John 11:35 might be more appropriate for at least one team’s supporters.
I am certain Cecil had a column about him. Can’t find the Search feature anymore since they revamped the main Straight Dope page. But he even names the guy, who would travel around the country to appear holding the sign. TV crews started zooming in on him.
Or John 10:20b, in games in which bad officiating is a common complaint. 
If it was on The Simpsons, it was recycling a similar gag from the previous season. Here he is in 03x19 Stark Raving Dad (the Michael Jackson episode.) Whacking Day was 04x20. (And now I’m lementing just how good The Simpsons was early on, and wondering if the season numbering will ever need another leading zero.)
My first guess was that it had something to do with pi. Pi is approximately 3.14. I can’t find any online reference to “John 3.14” (other than to the Bible verse) though.
Well at least it wasn’t Ezekiel 23:20. That has to be one of the most unexpected verses to find in the Bible
How so? It’s not like it’s out of context or anything.
Ezekiel is the weirdest damn book in the entire Bible, and I’m quite familiar with Revelation, thanks. That verse might be unexpected if you just open a Bible to that verse at random, but not if you’ve read Ezekiel from the beginning up to that point, and not even that much if you’ve read from the beginning of that chapter.
Thanks.
No, it was definitely John 3:14 and I’m pretty sure it was vaguely snake-related. I remember looking it up and thinking “Snakes? Ah, that’s clever!”
Update: I finally stumbled across the comedy bit I was thinking of! It’s a Kids in the Hall skit involving the Gaelic sport of “shirling”, where players are chained together in a circle around a spitting cobra. (Hence the snake connection)
