Wept (εκλαυσεν). Ingressive aorist active indicative, burst into tears. Probably audible weeping.

He wept over it. Showing His compassion for the guilty city, and His strong sense of the evils that were about to come upon it (see Barnes…

He beheld the city, and wept over it.—This, and the tears over the grave of Lazarus (John 11:35), are the onl…

What a contrast! The King's courtiers shouting for joy, and the King himself weeping over the guilty city where the greatest tragedy in the history…

Origen of Alexandria: Jesus confirms all the blessings He pronounced in His Gospel with His own example. For having declared,…

The term “Christ” is, of course, used here, not as a proper name, but as a title, “the Messiah” (see comment on Mk 8:29–30). The Messiah was common…

And wept over it. As there was nothing that Christ more ardently desired than to carry out the office that the Father had entrusted to him…

And when he was come near, he beheld city
Of Jerusalem; being now nearer, and in a situation to take a full view of it, he lif…

Who can behold the holy Jesus, looking forward to the miseries that awaited his murderers, weeping over the city where his precious blood was about…