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John chapter 11 verse 35

Jesus wept.

Two words.

That's an easy Bible verse to memorize.

Jesus wept.

But it is an awesome picture, reality, truth to contemplate.

Here is Jesus God in the flesh, who is about to raise Lazarus from the dead.

He knows that he's about to show that he's the resurrection and the life. He's about to bring his friend to life.

Those who people are mourning for.

And yet, before he does that, the picture here, Jesus is deeply moved in spirit, greatly

troubled. Those are the words that describe how Jesus feels when he sees Martha and Mary and friends and family

weeping over Lazarus death.

And as they wept he wept with them he identified with their emotions,

their hurt, with their eviness, with their sorrow.

Like I think about the moment

when my brother called me and told me that my dad had just unexpectedly died of a heart attack and man I'm doing it now I just I I

began to weep I mean at that moment I fell on the floor like uncontrollably sobbing.

So overwhelmed with sorrow in a way that, yeah, is fresh even right now, like, death is sorrowful.

Separation like that is sad, and it's heavy, and it hurts.

And I'm guessing you have experienced this as well in some way if you haven't that you will and

the good news of the Bible here in John 1135 is that we do not have a God who is distant

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