Jesus wept. Just those two words. John's shortest verse. Lazarus was dead, and Jesus knew he was about to raise him. Yet he wept.
That's extraordinary. Jesus's tears aren't because the situation is hopeless. They're because death is real and grief is real, even when resurrection is possible. Jesus honors the loss. He doesn't minimize it. He doesn't skip over it with 'at least he'll be alive again.' He weeps first. Then he acts. Both are true simultaneously.
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