While Jesus was on earth, "He offered up both prayers
and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save
Him from death, and He was heard because of
His piety. Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from
the things which He suffered. And having been made perfect, He became
to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation" (Hebrews
5:7-9).
In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus knew His time had come. Jesus
was God and He had become flesh to dwell among us (John 1:1, 14). He came to be
the sacrificial Lamb, taking on all sin, once and for all. Jesus would become
sin so that we could become righteous in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). The pressure was intense “and being
in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of
blood, falling down upon the ground” (Luke 22:44).
Jesus is the manliest man I know and the
Bible records Him weeping in several places. "Jesus wept" is a phrase
famous for being the shortest verse in the Bible. In the moving experience
of the resurrection of Lazarus and a showing of what was to come “Jesus wept” (John
11:35). Jesus stated before raising
Lazarus, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me will live
even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do
you believe this?” (John 11:25). If there is anything to get emotional over it
is in believing and walking in Him.
Jesus “when He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and
wept over it” because He knew they would “not recognize the time of His
visitation” (Luke 19:41-44). On a donkey He road into the city, drove the
traders out of the temple, and then taught daily in the temple. "But the
chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying
to destroy Him” (Luke 19:47). Jesus knew the Jews would reject Him, so
going into the city was an emotional moment indeed.