Click to read and weep; after all, Jesus wept too. We’re told Jesus “was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.” “Where have you laid him?” he asked. And according to verse 35, “Jesus wept.” “Jesus wept” is the shortest verse in the Bible and also “the most profound and powerful,” the artist Makoto Fujimura told me. Earlier in John 11, we’re told that Jesus knew he was going to raise Lazarus from the dead, which he did. Before Jesus, compassion was primarily thought of as a weakness, he said.

Source: The Times December 25, 2023 23:36 UTC