Luke Chapter 19 verse 41 Holy Bible
And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,
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And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,
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And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,
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And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
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When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
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And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 41. - He beheld the city. It was a very different view to what the traveller of the present day would see from the same spot. Though Jerusalem, when Jesus Christ was teaching on earth, was subject to the stranger Herodian, and the Herodian to the great Italian power, yet the beauty and glory of the city were remarkable. Still glittered in the midst of the great city that "mass of gold and snow" known as the temple. The far-extending suburbs were covered with the gardens and palaces of the wealthy Jews. But the mighty memories which hung so thickly round the sacred city and the glorious house of God after all constituted its chief charm. What might not that city have been! what splendid and far-reaching work might it not have done l and now the cup of its iniquities was just brimming over; only a few more short years, and a silence the most awful would brood over the shapeless ruins of what was once Jerusalem and her house on Zion, the joy of the whole earth. And wept over it. No merely silent tears of mute sorrow, but ἔκλαυσεν, he wept aloud. All the insults and the sufferings of the Passion were powerless to elicit from the Man of sorrows that expression of intense grief which the thought of the ruin of the loved city called forth.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(41) He beheld the city, and wept over it.--This, and the tears over the grave of Lazarus (John 11:35), are the only recorded instances of our Lord's tears. It is significant that in the one case they flow from the intensity of personal friendship, in the other from that of the intense love of country which we know as patriotism. Neither element of character could well be wanting in the perfect pattern of a holiness truly human.
