NEW TESTAMENT

John 11:33

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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,

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Verse 33. He groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself. The Latin and Greek, both in this and the 38th verse, express a more than ordinary inward trouble. Christ, as he was truly man, had the affections and passions of human nature; yet so that he was master, even of the first motions, which could not raise in him any disturbance or disorderly inclinations. He permitted, therefore, and, as it is said, raised in himself these affections of compassion and grief at this time. Witham.

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