John 11:35

Jesus wept Or, shed tears. The word occurs nowhere else in N.T.; it expresses less loud lamentation than the word used in John 11:31; John 11:33. He sheds tears on His way to their brother's grave, not because He is ignorant or doubtful of what is coming, but because He cannot but sympathize with the intensity of His friends" grief. "The intense humanity attributed to Jesus, His affection, His visible suffering, the effort with which He collects Himself, are all strong marks of authenticity, and the more so because they might be thought to conflict with the doctrine of the prologue. But this is but one more proof how little that doctrine has disturbed the Evangelist's true historic recollection." S. pp. 186, 7.