“Jesus wept” are widely recognized the most profound words ever uttered.
The depth should not be cheapened by some low brow internet verbal contest, but remembered with humility and gratitude.
The words are a gift to believers. A glimpse of inspiration.
This article below respectfully explores the occasions Jesus wept/lamented, and how this affects believers’ understanding.
Different papers have been written, this may not be the best.
Answers in Genesis / Why Did Jesus Weep?
https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/why-did-jesus-weep/
It ends with:
May we have a heart like His!
When we read John 11:35, the shortest verse in the English Bible, we are often struck with the humanity of Jesus.
Perhaps we can now also view this verse in a different light and consider the deity of Jesus.
Jesus, as God incarnate, was weeping at the hardness of people’s hearts and the sin around him.
Jesus was weeping that mankind was still under the curse of death and that the last enemy of mankind was not yet defeated.
But Jesus was not powerless; He had the power to overcome death, and through His death, burial, and Resurrection He has likewise made believers more than conquerors over sin and death (Romans 6:9–1; 8:37). We look forward to that blessed hope (Titus 2:13) that when Christ comes, we shall be made alive with Him (1 Corinthians 15:22). Through faith in Christ, we can look forward to an eternity one day where He will wipe away all tears and there will be no more sorrow (Revelation 21:4).
But while we are still here on this earth, struggling with death and sorrow, we must lay aside every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us, (Hebrews 12:1). Let us follow our Lord’s example and rightly weep over the things that make Him weep. May we resolve to have a contrite spirit in regard to our own sin (Psalm 51:17; Isaiah 66:2), and may we have a burden for those who are lost.
May we have a heart like His!
i don’t interpret “Jesus wept” as “weeping+wailing,” but as quiet, dignified, authentic pain that might result in a quiet falling tear.
there are numbers of situations today in which it’s not possible to imagine Jesus would not weep.
i’m grateful for silentreader’s message to Valerie:
silentreader wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:14 pm You realize that weeping may be the best testimony in this case.
It may not touch anyone who is fully hardened or one whom God has "given over" to a mind devoid of reason,
but it still may reach someone.