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A Weeping King's Compassion
Commentators highlight the powerful contrast in this scene: while crowds celebrated His triumphal entry, Jesus wept. His tears were not for Himself but were an audible outburst of grief over Jerusalem. He foresaw the terrible destruction that would come upon the city because its people were rejecting Him, their Messiah and the very source of their peace.
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18th Century
Theologian
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…
Wept (εκλαυσεν). Ingressive aorist active indicative, burst into tears. Probably audible weeping.
19th Century
Bishop
He beheld the city, and wept over it.—This, and the tears over the grave of Lazarus (John 11:35), are the onl…
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19th Century
Preacher
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…
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…
16th Century
Theologian
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…
17th Century
Pastor
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…
17th Century
Minister
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…