![]() ![]() We worship a God who cares enough to weep for us (Luke 19:41 John 11:35).ĭo you believe that God cares for you? Really? Why? Why not? We worship a God who cares enough to send his own son to make that happen (John 3:16). We worship a God who cares enough to wish to save us. We do not worship an indifferent apathetic God. The fact that Jesus wept means that Jesus cared. Whatever the reasons for Jesus’ tears, they indicate that he cared. Perhaps he wept for Lazarus, either because of the suffering he had endured or because he would raise him and as such, die again. Perhaps he wept because his purposes required him to delay going to Bethany (John 11:6). Perhaps Jesus cried because he saw his friends suffering. ![]() What causes you to shed tears? When is the most you have ever cried? Why did Jesus weep at the news of Lazarus’ death when he would raise him moments later? It stands alone as if to say that there is something profound in the act of Jesus weeping. ![]() This sentence could have been attached to the verse preceding it or the following verse. It is the shortest verse in all of Scripture. The passage in John is the most well known passage in which Jesus wept, likely because the action constitutes the entire verse: Jesus wept. Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. Though these are the only specific instances in which the Bible records that Jesus wept, Hebrews implies that tears were not uncommon in his life: It is as if a tear trickled down Jesus’ cheek in Bethany while he bawled in Jerusalem. The word used in Luke ( klaio) means “to mourn, weep, lament”. When he makes his final approach in Jerusalem, Jesus wept over the city (Luke 19:41). The second instance where Jesus cried was more demonstrative. The word John used for “wept” ( dakruo) means “to weep, shed tears”. He weeps with Mary and Martha in Bethany at the passing of their brother Lazarus (John 11:35), whom Jesus would soon famously raise from the dead (John 11:43-44). The Bible features two stories that show Jesus being publicly moved to tears. ![]()
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