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''Synopsis:'' This is the shortest verse in the [[Bible]]. Jesus' friend Lazarus has just died.
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==Commentary==
Some interpret his weeping to mean that Jesus was sorrowful for the fact that Lazarus had died (which was the interpretation of the bystanders in verse 36). Jesus may have wept because he understood and knew the pain and suffering that death brings. An alternate explanation considers that Jesus wept in anger. This view instead argues that every single person whom Jesus talked to (his disciples, Martha, Mary, and the Jews) was blinded by their misconceptions of Jesus and by their failure to recognize that, as he declared in [[John 11:26|verse 26]], he was "the resurrection and the life". Thus, "he groaned in the spirit and was troubled" ([[John 11:33]]). This view holds that he wept because even those who were closest to him were still blinded by their concepts to the fact that he really was "the resurrection and the life".
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_11:35 Wikipedia - Jesus wept]
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