{"id":18186,"date":"2025-05-26T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18186"},"modified":"2025-05-26T16:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:10:18","slug":"why-jesus-wept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18186","title":{"rendered":"Why Jesus Wept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The popular explanations have always been a tad <strong>childish <\/strong>(i.e. \"because he having the same emotion as other humans at a <strong>funeral<\/strong>\", \"because how ugly <strong>death <\/strong>is\", etc.) Thus far, Stephen Tong's answer's the best one. I have come across someone else (Dirk) giving similar reasoning to Tong's, but such is rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tong starts with the common theme between miracles and crying by our Lord, that it was <strong>never for His own sake but others'<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 times the Bible records Jesus wept: John 11:35, Luke 19:41, Heb 5:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 11:35 is most well known and probably the most misinterpreted. Tong liked the reason to John 11:53, that He cried for the suffering of the <strong>stubborn hearts<\/strong> that took counsel together to put Him to death since that day forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 19:41 is obvious, for <strong>Jerusalem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heb 5:7 doesn't indicate the specific. Tong believes this was in Gethsemane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, all there could easily share one familiarity, that Jesus cried <strong>for sin, not death<\/strong>: That how the world <strong>rebel <\/strong>against God, that the sin of mankind has become so <strong>grievous<\/strong>, that men do not understand the <strong>wrath of God <\/strong>that has come upon them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff03\u5728\u5ba2\u897f\u99ac\u5c3c\u5712\u8036\u7a4c\u6975\u5176\u50b7\u75db\u3001\u5927\u8072\u54c0\u54ed\uff0c\u5230\u5e95\u70ba\u4e86\u4ec0\u9ebc\u2753\uff08\u5e0c\u4f2f\u4f86\u66f8\u8981\u7406\u554f\u7b54 \u7b2c711\u554f\uff09\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_7FyCQjrrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus was not recorded to laugh. But <strong>rejoiced<\/strong> on several occasions. So, it's very likely that he laughed. And one time recorded to be <strong>singing <\/strong>(Mark 14:26) praises, which Tong said to be Psalm 118, the passover hymn that all Jews sang, while sung <strong>generally in joy, Jesus must have sung it in both joy and sorrow<\/strong>, a paradoxical emotion no one can fathom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff03\u903e\u8d8a\u7bc0\u665a\u9910\u4e4b\u5f8c\uff0c\u8036\u7a4c\u70ba\u4f55\u4ee5\u54c0\u50b7\u4e26\u6b61\u559c\u7684\u5fc3\u60c5\u5531\u8a69\u3008\u8a69118:24\u3009\u2753\uff08\u5e0c\u4f2f\u4f86\u66f8\u8981\u7406\u554f\u7b54 \u7b2c712\u554f\uff09\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2d2Najp7YI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular explanations have always been a tad childish (i.e. \"because he having the same emotion as other humans at a funeral\", \"because how ugly death is\", etc.) Thus far, Stephen Tong's answer's the best one. I have come across &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18193,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions\/18193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}