Jesus wept why

Jesus intentionally waited to go to Lazarus to bring God glory once Lazarus was raised from the dead. Still, the disciples planned to go to Judea with Jesus to die with Him. Lazarus had been dead for days. There is no way, they believed, he can come back to life. When Jesus told Martha that He would still raise her brother, she reasoned:. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

Jesus wanted the people to believe in Him. Still, they seemed to be focused on whether Jesus got to Judea on time. Jesus was grieved because all the answers to their needs were right in front of them, yet they seemed to miss it. They seemed to miss the power of Jesus. This lack of faith made Jesus weep because what He truly wants from us is our faith.

There were not many people who impressed Jesus, but the few who did all had one thing in common: a bold faith in Him. Jesus knew within a short time He too would die and be placed in a tomb.

He knew He would ultimately overcome death and rise from the dead just like Lazarus, but He also knew it would be an extremely difficult road to walk. Closer to His death Jesus prayed:. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will. We may sometimes weep in this fallen world, but in Jesus, we have a greater hope. I will join you in prayer for a spiritual awakening among God's people and the advancement of the gospel.

Connect Search Subscribe Donate. I hope that it will encourage you to see the tenderness of Christ and to ask the Lord to fill your heart with His own love for others… I asked the Lord to give me love - His love for souls in sin; Instead He gave me weeping eyes, A broken heart within.

I saw Him go to where His friend Was lying in a grave; The sisters and their friends were grieved - What love to them He gave. You see my Savior standing there Was also grieved that day, He wept great heaving tears with sobs Till those who saw could say: "Behold we see now how He loved. And then He took me to the day The people hailed their King While Jesus enters to their cheers The children run and sing. I heard His weeping, strong and deep, But through it I discerned He prayed for me - it melted me, His love for me I learned.

Scott Pauley. Mary went out and met Jesus, and, in her grieving process, started bargaining with Jesus that if He had been there, her brother would still be alive. As their friends came out and started to cry with Mary, it says that Jesus was deeply moved. In all instances, it means to feel something deeply and strongly.

Jesus was moved with profound sorrow at the death of his friend and at the grief that his other friends had suffered. In addition, this sorrow was intermixed with anger at the evil of death.

Not only was Jesus deeply moved, but John says that He was deeply moved in His spirit when He witnessed the palpable grief around Him. This grief is a human reality felt by His Human spirit , but life and resurrection are divine realities the Holy Spirit. Death is a devastating reality of humanity. It happens to us all — our own mortality — and to those around us, yet with its unwavering commonality, it does not make it any easier to experience.

When a death is tragic, like a child dying from cancer, the goodness of God can be put into question. Even with perfectly good intentions, these sentiments may trigger the grieving.

It could also cause them to move further away from God to think, in the midst of losing a loved one, that God caused the most devastating and negative thing to happen to them. He knows Mary, Martha, and their brother better than many other characters described in the Gospels. And if the man was indeed fully human, then some deaths must have affected him more than others.

I was a pastor for over three decades and presided over hundreds of funerals. None of them was easy. But the death of my friend, Bill, after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer, left me weeping at traffic lights and breaking into tears at unpredictable moments.

I just handed people the bread, crying, wordlessly. Some deaths affect us more than others.