1/20/2024 0 Comments Jesus wept for lazarus verseJesus came about four days after the event. The sisters, you remember, were there weeping sadly over their brother’s decease. We find Christ weeping in John’s Gospel chapter 11 – that famous and familiar passage where Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, was now dead and had been dead for some days, and was in his grave. This word here for ‘weeping’ is a word which needs explanation. What we see in fact is none other than our Lord and Saviour Himself, Jesus Christ, and He is weeping. If we were here simply looking at the case of a great man weeping, it would be touching enough. As we grow older, we weep more in secret, less in public, than we do as children. It belongs to manhood to conceal our affections and emotions to a large extent. We are more affected by seeing a strong man weeping than a child. However, the stronger the person who weeps the more powerful the effect is upon us. When we see a child or a young person in tears it has an effect upon us: we have a sense of fellow feeling and sympathy. There is something infectious about tears. It is a touching thing to see anyone weeping, even a child. Here we see the Lord Jesus Christ weeping over the city of Jerusalem. This must be one of the most touching passages in the Gospels. WHAT IS AHEAD FOR EVERY UNREPENTANT SINNER " He beheld the city, and wept over it" (text).ģ. "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes" (Luke 19, 41-42). Instead of rejoicing, our Lord broke out with violent weeping and He tells us why.
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