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John 11:35 KJV
John · chapter 11 · verse 35
Jesus wept.John 11:35 · King James Version
What John 11:35 means
The shortest verse in the Bible, and he knew he was about to raise the man. That is what makes it worth sitting with. The grief was not ignorance of the outcome. He wept at the grave of a friend he was minutes away from calling back out of it.
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John 11:35 in context
33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
34And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
35Jesus wept.
36Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
37And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
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Key words (Strong's)
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
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Here we have, I. Christ's tender sympathy with his afflicted friends, and the share he took to himself in their sorrows, which appeared three ways: - 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 33-44