Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!
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… am going to grieve with those who are grieving and I'm going to share that moment. So then the Jews said, see how he loved him. He's not afraid of your wrestling. He's not afraid of your dialogue. He wants to enter those spaces with you. This is profound because Jesus, he not only knew the ending and he not only walked into that place with compassion, he had enough compassion to feel what it was like to feel broken. And he doesn't just step outside of the story or the circumstance, but he steps into it. And the third thing we see in the next portion of the story is we begin to see the working. The working power, the working wonder, the God that works on our behalf, the God that does the impossible, the God that starts when we come to the end of us. Verse 38, it says, Jesus once more deeply moved, filled with compassion, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. …
… who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed and deeply troubled and said, where have you laid him. They said to him, Sir, come and see. And Jesus wept. So the Jews said, See how he loved him. But some of them said, Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died? So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone lay across it. Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him, Lord, by now there will be a stench. He has been dead for four days. Jesus said to her, did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me. But because of the crowd here, I have said this, that they may believe that you have sent me. And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out. The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands and his face wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, untie him and let him go. Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him. The Gospel of the Lord. …
… Jesus wept. So the Jews said, see how he loved him, which is a really good observation. You see love in grief. When you really love someone, you grieve their loss. What you grieve reveals what and whom you love. but Jesus didn't only feel our sorrows when he was among us Isaiah also says he carried them he bore our sorrows he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by God and afflicted but he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace. And by his wounds, we are healed. and because of Jesus's work on our behalf carrying our sorrows bearing our griefs a day is coming where there will be no more sorrows every tear will be wiped away death shall be no more nor shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore here's the way Isaiah talks about it all the way back 700 years before Jesus he says the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing everlasting joy shall be upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. …