John 11:28-35
Jesus Was Deeply Moved in Spirit and Trouble, and Wept
28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
35 Jesus wept.
When Jesus was with Mary and and Martha He showed His emotions and His feelings...When Jesus saw Mary weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled....It was like Jesus felt the grief of Mary and was not afraid to show His own feelings...Then Jesus after asking some questions to Mary, He wept...He showed and expressed His feelings...Jesus did not scorn or reject His Own feelings as fickle or unreliable...He felt His emotions and expressed them...
Author and Priest Brennan Manning wrote, “To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life...Jesus listened...In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)...The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a Man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them...The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable...They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.”...