John 11:35

ἐδάκρυσεν. Literally, shed tears: here only in N.T. see on John 13:30. His lamentation was less violent than that of the sisters and their friends (John 11:31; John 11:33). Once it is said of Him that He wailed aloud (ἔκλαυσεν, Luke 19:41); but that was not for the loss of a friend, but for the spiritual death of the whole Jewish nation. Now He sheds tears, not because He is ignorant or doubtful of what is coming, but because He cannot but sympathize with His friends’ grief. He who later shared the pains of death, here shares the sorrow for death. “It is not with a heart of stone that the dead are raised.” Comp. Hebrews 2:11. For the dramatic brevity comp. John 5:9; John 13:30; John 18:40.