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35. ἐδάκρυσεν. Literally, shed tears: here only in N.T. see on Joh 13:30. His lamentation was less violent than that of the sisters and their friends (Joh 11:31; Joh 11:33). Once it is said of Him that He wailed aloud (ἔκλαυσεν, Luk 19:41); but that was not for the loss of a friend, but for the spiritual death of the whole Jewish nation. Now He sheds tears, not because He is ignorant or doubtful of what is coming, but because He cannot but sympathize with His friends’ grief. He who later shared the pains of death, here shares the sorrow for death. “It is not with a heart of stone that the dead are raised.” Comp. Heb 2:11. For the dramatic brevity comp. Joh 5:9, Joh 13:30, Joh 18:40.