What does First B Jackson teach about jesus wept?

At First B Jackson, the teaching on 'Jesus wept' starts with a close look at the language of John 11:35 itself. Both Pastor Jason and Pastor Brian have pointed out that the Greek word used for Jesus' tears is different from the word used for Mary, Martha, and the mourners around them. The mourners' grief was loud and outward, a convulsive, dramatic display. Jesus' weeping was quiet, a silent inward welling of tears, and that particular Greek word appears nowhere else in the New Testament. That distinction matters, because it shows Jesus was not performing grief. He felt it, fully and genuinely, in His humanity.

Randy brought the same verse into an Easter message shaped by real personal loss, the sudden death of his closest childhood friend, Chad. He set John 11:35 alongside Luke 19, where Jesus wept a second time, over Jerusalem, a city whose very name means peace but that was about to reject the one who is its only foundation. Both moments of weeping point to the same truth: Jesus grieves what sin and death do to people and to the world He made. Randy also drew on Pope Leo I's observation that in His humanity Jesus wept for Lazarus, but in His divinity He raised him from the dead.

All three messages land in the same place. Jesus is not a distant high priest who cannot be touched by human sorrow. Hebrews 4:15 runs through each of these sermons as a kind of anchor. Because Jesus wept, His people are freed to weep too, and to weep with those who weep, as Romans 12:15 calls them to do. The teaching here is not that grief is a failure of faith. It is that grief, held honestly before a Lord who has shed real tears Himself, is exactly where He meets us.

Taught from John 11:35 · John 11:1-44 · Hebrews 4:15 · Luke 19:41-42 · Romans 12:15