Deeply
Moved
When she had said this, she went back and
called her sister Mary, and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is
calling for you.” And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him.
Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where
Martha had met him. The Jews who were with her in the
house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her
because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary
came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord,
if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her
weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly
disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, “Where have you laid him?” They
said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, “See
how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of
the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
John 11:28-37
Jesus wept for Lazarus, as well as for Mary and
Martha and their grief. Later, Jesus wept over
If you doubt that Jesus
cares, remember His tears.
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