Jesus wept. Why?

Question

Sorrow? Empathy? Unbelief?

Answer 1

Your referring to John 11:35 - If you read the context of the entire chapter you'll see that Jesus was on his way to RAISE LAZARUS from the dead. He was saying that to everyone around him before he arrived. When he finally arrives to meet Martha and Mary FOUR days had passed. Jesus did that on purpose so that he would FIND FAITH. Martha and Mary both were still in unbelief. Jesus again tried to get them to believe, but they didn't. In verse (33) Jesus groans in the spirit, and was troubled. Then in verse (35) he weeps. HE WEPT OUT OF THE COMPASSION HE HAS FOR ALL PEOPLE. HE WEPT BECAUSE HE KNEW THEY STILL DID NOT BELIEVE. HE WEPT BECAUSE HE IS OFFERING SO MUCH LOVE......IF PEOPLE WOULD ONLY BELIEVE.

Answer 2

Definitely not unbelief. Jesus wept because he knew the burden of what he had to do. Jesus was flesh ans blood just like you and me, but he was God manifested in flesh.I believe He had sorrow about things that happened or that were going to happen (to him) and probably to all he loved. He even asked God in the Garden to take this cup from him if there was any other way. But if there wasn't he would be obedient and knew his Father knew what he was going through and he would live eternally with him and he would save the souls of all who believed. His Faith and Trust in his Father was stronger than anything that could happen or would happen to him, and thus he always made the right choice, to obey God and his will for him.

Answer 3

Have you ever wept at a movie during the sad part? Have you ever watched that movie more than once and found you were still moved by it? Jesus has the market cornered on compassion, and when Mary was heartbroken at her brother's death, Christ was moved by her sorrow. Even as he intended to plead with God for his life and raise him up again, he was filled with compasion for Mary's pain and loss. If only each of us could be affected even a fraction of that, the world would be a more loving and peaceful place.

Answer 4

He did not weep over the death of Lazarus. He already stated that Lazarus was dead and that He was going to raise him. He wept because He had already shared so much with these people and still they had doubts. So it was sorrow not over the death of a loved one yet sorrow that the people he loved so much still did not understand His true meaning and trust in Him.

Answer 5

Although Jesus was an aspect of God incarnated, his incarnation was also meant to convey how closely aligned the human/physical and the God/spiritual are.

In other words, Jesus wept because such emotions and feelings were meant to convey that God, too, could feel, could weep, could share in man's sense of mourning. If someone puts their arm around you, just for a moment, and weeps with you, you still feel comforted, and that is why Jesus wept.

Answer 6

When he saw the misery the death of Lazarus caused. Also the sadness Martha and Mary had at feeling let down by Jesus (actually the Jewish leaders were plotting to kill Jesus, and it wasn't His time, so He delayed as a result of God the Father instructing Him).
So its sadness and pity at all the frustration we humans experience because the world is a mess, with death and misery part of our lot. (Of course His death is the means by which God is undoing this for those that believe.)

Answer 7

Luke 19:41-44. Just after his triumphal entry, Jesus wept over the pending destruction of Jerusalem because they did not recognize "the time of God's coming". (It had nothing to do with Lazarus.)

Answer 8

Because when Jesus Christ took the human form (I said took because he was not originally human as stated in Fil 2:6

6Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

7 but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature[a] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.)

has that emotion like other human being does. For me I would rather be forever greatful because of the fact that the Lord and the God that I trust knows the feeling of compassion. Unlike the other gods out there who doesn't have any emotions at all. Like that mentioned in Psalm 115: 4-8

But their idols are silver and gold,
made by the hands of men.

5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but they cannot see;

6 they have ears, but cannot hear,
noses, but they cannot smell;

7 they have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but they cannot walk;
nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

8 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.

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Answer 9

Jesus when he learned his friend Lazarus had died, so I'm sure it was sorrow, and empathy for his friends Mary and Martha. I think he also wept for Jerusalem.

Answer 10

simple answer? His good friend, lazarus, was dead...and lazarus' sisters were in terrible grief...so, sorrow, empathy,yes-but unbelief? not for a second!