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Joh 11:33. Τοὺς συνελθόντας, who had come with her) Joh 11:31.-ἐνεβριμήσατο, He groaned) Thus it was that, by a more austere [more severe] affection of the mind, Jesus restrained His tears; and presently after, at Joh 11:38, He broke off His tears [to which He had given way, Joh 11:35]: and by that very fact, the influence produced by them [His tears] on the bystanders was the greater; Joh 11:36, [The Jews were constrained to say, “Behold how He loved him!”]-ἐτάραξεν ἑαυτόν, He troubled Himself [‘was troubled,’ Engl. Vers.; and some MSS. of Vulg., “turbatus est in se ipso”]) The elegance of this reflexive [reciprocæ] phrase is inexpressibly striking: comp. ἔταξαν ἑαυτούς, They have ordered themselves [“addicted themselves,” Engl. Vers.], 1Co 16:15. The affections of Jesus’ mind were not passions, but voluntary emotions, which He had altogether in His own control; accordingly, this “troubling of Himself” was fully consonant with order, and the highest reason. The case is a weightier [more hard to understand] one, which is described subsequently, ch. Joh 12:27, τετάρακται, κ.τ.λ.; Joh 13:21; and yet it also is to be explained by means of the present passage. [So Christians are not, on the one hand, Stoics; but, on the other, they do not succumb to their own mental affections. They are not agitated with passions, properly so called.-V. g.]