There are two words that perhaps are amongst the most wonderful we can ever think of. They are "Jesus wept". That the Lord of Life and Glory should have shed tears is a most remarkable thing. We cannot think of Him as never being happy. He is the "Happy man" of Psalm 1 and we rejoice to think of Him as such.
That there should be cause for Him to weep at Calvary as well as in the Garden is not surprising. There the culminating grief of His coming sufferings felt in that garden brought forth tears. On the cross when He was forsaken by God he surely had cause to weep, but of the occasion to which we refer, the visit to the visit to the grave of Lazarus, it seems that he should weep there. Was He not about to speak the word that would summons back the spirit of His friend from Hades and restore him to his sorrowing sisters? He was; and that fact should certainly cause Him and them supreme joy. Why did the Lord of Glory weep? A few considerations about this may be helpful.
He wept in sympathy. The great heart that could feel for the bereaved was torn with sorrow for them. They had gone through the trying experience of having to wait for two days as he tarried there where He had been when the new news of the death of Lazarus reached Him. The disciples had said that "Lazarus is sick". He knew that the man was dead but, but He waited two days. It was the third day when the Lord of life and glory made His way to the grave side.
It was the resurrection day, as we learn later, the day that must be the outstanding of history.
