“Jesus shed tears.” John 11:3
The New Testament records three times that the Lord Jesus shed tears. Each time, this was in connection with death.
In John 11 we find that the Lord Jesus wept at the death of His friend Lazarus. When He saw the tears on Mary’s face and on the cheeks of the other mourners, tears flowed from the Son of God (v. 35).
In Luke 19 we read that the Lord Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem, which had behaved in a hostile and rejecting manner towards Him. He knew that as a result Jerusalem would be conquered and razed to the ground (vv. 42-44).
Hebrews 5 says that the Son of God prayed to God in the Garden of Gethsemane with strong crying and tears. They were tears in the face of his own death, which was necessary to set free those who were subject to bondage through the fear of death (v. 7).
Christ wept over the death of his friends and over the death of his enemies. This shows his true compassion. He also wept in the face of what awaited Him on Golgotha. But He went the hard way to the cross to bring us to the place where there are no more tears (Rev 21,4).
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