Well, it's Friday again, and this is the last edition of Things Unseen for the week.

I hope you've been helped through the work week, and I also hope that perhaps you've enjoyed

our theme this week when we've been focusing

attention on the character of the Lord Jesus and asking the question, what's Jesus really

like?

Yesterday in passing, I mentioned an article entitled The Emotional Life of Our Lord.

It was written by the great American theologian Benjamin B. Warfield, and I think was first published

in a book of essays that celebrated the centenary of Princeton Seminary.

Warfield's works were published a century ago by Oxford University Press in ten wonderful volumes,

but this essay wasn't included, so I think by and large it fell out of view.

Now, we're not in product placement here on things unseen, but some of you want to know

that it was republished some time ago by Crossway, and I warmly recommend it to you.

Well, in his essay, Warfield points out the emotion that's most frequently attributed

to Jesus. I wonder if you can guess what it was. Yes, it's compassion, grounded in love. And I imagine

many of us might be able to guess that. But then Warfield singles out an element in Jesus' emotional makeup that I suspect

we don't think about nearly as often. Anger and indignation. It occurs early in Mark's gospel.

Jesus is angry with the Pharisees because of their lack of compassion for a man with a withered hand.

Later on, he's indignant about the way his own disciples are hindering little children and infants from being brought to him for his blessing.

But the most impressive place where we see this aspect of our Lord Jesus is at the grave of Lazarus, when he saw Mary and some

of the Jews weeping, in fact wailing for grief. We're told he was deeply moved in his

spirit and greatly troubled. Language is repeated just a few verses later.

The older version said that Jesus groaned in spirit.

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