![]() As though such feelings could be determined in a manner involving such deliberation, and as if the death of His friend, the grief of those by whom He was accompanied, as well as the wailings of the sisters, were not sufficient, of themselves alone, to arouse His loving sympathy to tears! It is precisely a genuine human emotion, which neither could nor should resist the painful impression produced by such a moment. According to Baur, indeed, tears for a dead man, whose grave was being approached in the certainty of his being raised to life again, could not be the expression of a true, genuinely human fellow-feeling. It is a delicate discrimination of expressions, unforced, and true. His lamenting is a shedding of tears in quiet anguish, not a weeping with loud lamentation, not a κλαυθμός as over Jerusalem, Luke 19:41. It is also worthy of notice, that δακρύειν is here used, and not again κλαίειν, Note the eloquent, deeply-moving simplicity which characterizes the narrative and remark as to the subject-matter, how, before accomplishing His work, Jesus gives full vent to the sorrow which He felt for His friend, and for the suffering inflicted on the sisters. ὁ Ἰ.] He weeps, whilst on His way to the sepulchre, with those who were weeping. To the same tender and compassionate Saviour Christians may now come Hebrews 4:15 and to him the penitent sinner may also come, knowing that he will not cast him away. ![]() We have here an instance of the tenderness of the character of Jesus, The same Savior wept over Jerusalem, and felt deeply for poor dying, sinners. All that religion does in the case is to temper and chasten our grief to teach us to mourn with submission to God to weep without complaining, and to seek to banish tears, not by hardening the heart or forgetting the friend, but by bringing the soul, made tender by grief, to receive the sweet influences of religion, and to find calmness and peace in the God of all consolation.Ĥ. It is the expression of nature and religion does not forbid or condemn it. Sorrow at the death of friends is not improper. Romans 12:15 "rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep."ģ. It is right, it is natural, it is indispensable for the Christian to sympathize with others in their afflictions. Piety binds stronger the ties of friendship, makes more tender the emotions of love, and seals and sanctifies the affections of friends.Ģ. That the most tender personal friendship is not inconsistent with the most pure religion. It shows the Lord Jesus as a friend, a tender friend, and evinces his character as a man. ![]() It is salvation for the whole man and for every man and the sorrowing heart of humanity has never seen more clearly the divinity of the Son of Man than when it has seen His glory shining through His human tears.īarnes' Notes on the BibleJesus wept - It has been remarked that this is the shortest verse in the Bible but it is exceedingly important and tender. A “God in tears” has provoked the smile of the stoic and the scorn of the unbeliever but Christianity is not a gospel of self-sufficiency, and its message is not merely to the human intellect. John’s Gospel is “The Word was made flesh,” and He is for us the Resurrection and the Life, because He has been manifested to us, not as an abstraction which the intellect only could receive, but as a person, living a human life, and knowing its sorrows, whom the heart can grasp and love. Men have wondered to find in the Gospel which opens with the express declaration of the divinity of our Lord, and at a moment when that divinity was about to receive its fullest manifestation, these words, which point them still to human weakness. He is conscious of the power which He is about to exercise, and that the first result will be the glory of God ( John 11:4) but He is conscious also of the suffering hearts near Him, and the sympathy with human sorrow is no less part of His nature than the union with divine strength. ![]() They are on the way to the sepulchre, near to which they have now arrived. The present word means not the cry of lamentation nor the wail of excessive grief, but the calm shedding of tears. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) Jesus wept.-The word is different from that which is used to express weeping in John 11:33 but this latter is used of our Lord in Luke 19:41.
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