Jesus Weeping | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1871

Jesus Weeping.

W. G. Schauffler draws the following interesting reflections on the tenderness which Jesus manifested over human suffering:—

“Jesus wept over the woes of a single city; and do you think that he never wept over the woes of a world? He wept in public, where he certainly would have restrained his feelings as much as possible; and do you not think he wept in secret? Could we lift the sacred veil of his solitary hours, of his seasons of retirement while an obscure workman at Nazareth; of his forty days’ fasting and prayer in the wilderness; of his vigils on the mountain top and in the desert,—what prayers! what intercessions! what tears! what tender and heavenly sympathies with the sorrows and woes of humanity, would come to light! His affections were not limited to Judea; he did not love those merely who loved him. He wept at the grave of Lazarus, and over the distress of Martha and Mary; and why not over the great congregation of the dead of a hundred and thirty generations past, and over all the broken hearts of widows and orphans from the beginning of the world? Why not over the distresses of all the sick, the delirium of the deranged, the agonies of the dying? Do you not see why he went about with restless assiduity to console, to comfort, to bind up broken hearts, raising the dead, curing and cleansing and restoring men to the enjoyment of health, sight, hearing, and reason? How could he do otherwise, with a heart like his? He would have done so, though no man would have believed in him on that account, or returned to him a grateful word or look.”