John 11:35 Jesus wept.
Doesn’t sound too rugged for this day and time. Here was a guy leading at least 12 men on a 3 year hiking tour in the Middle East who camped out, walked everywhere and cleansed the Temple of money grubbers with a white hot holy anger.
Now He’s crying! What gives?
Jesus gives. He is abut to give His life.
He is about to raise someone from the dead and start the final countdown to His death. and He’s weeping.
Weep is a powerful word. It’s not like the sobbing, crying uncontrolled we sometimes think of. It has sense of gentleness…brokenness…grief beyond expression.
I think perhaps Jesus was weeping at the brokenness sin has brought into this world. The curse of death and destruction that follows. Perhaps too weeping at the intense sorrow of losing loved one to death.
It is wonderful to worship a Messiah moved with compassion for His children.
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