John 11:33

11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people ¹  who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved ²  in spirit and greatly distressed. ³ 

John 11:35

11:35 Jesus wept. ⁴ 

John 11:38

Lazarus Raised from the Dead

11:38 Jesus, intensely moved ⁵  again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.) ⁶ 

John 12:27

12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me ⁷  from this hour’? ⁸  No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ⁹ 

Matthew 26:38

26:38 Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”

Mark 3:5

3:5 After looking around ¹⁰  at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, ¹¹  he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ¹² 

Acts 17:16

Paul at Athens

17:16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, ¹³  his spirit was greatly upset ¹⁴  because he saw ¹⁵  the city was full of idols.

Romans 9:2-3

9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ¹⁶  9:3 For I could wish ¹⁷  that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, ¹⁸  my fellow countrymen, ¹⁹ 

Romans 9:2

9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ²⁰ 

Colossians 2:12-13

2:12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your ²¹  faith in the power ²²  of God who raised him from the dead. 2:13 And even though you were dead in your ²³  transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless ²⁴  made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

[11:33]  ¹ tn Or “the Judeans”; Grk “the Jews.” Here the phrase refers to the friends, acquaintances, and relatives of Lazarus or his sisters who had come to mourn, since the Jewish religious authorities are specifically mentioned as a separate group in John 11:46-47. See also the notes on the phrase “the Jewish leaders” in v. 8, “the Jewish people of the region” in v. 19, and the word “people” in v. 31.

[11:33]  ² tn Or (perhaps) “he was deeply indignant.” The verb ἐνεβριμήσατο (enebrimhsato), which is repeated in John 11:38, indicates a strong display of emotion, somewhat difficult to translate – “shuddered, moved with the deepest emotions.” In the LXX, the verb and its cognates are used to describe a display of indignation (Dan 11:30, for example – see also Mark 14:5). Jesus displayed this reaction to the afflicted in Mark 1:43, Matt 9:30. Was he angry at the afflicted? No, but he was angry because he found himself face-to-face with the manifestations of Satan’s kingdom of evil. Here, the realm of Satan was represented by death.

[11:33]  ³ tn Or “greatly troubled.” The verb ταράσσω (tarassw) also occurs in similar contexts to those of ἐνεβριμήσατο (enebrimhsato). John uses it in 14:1 and 27 to describe the reaction of the disciples to the imminent death of Jesus, and in 13:21 the verb describes how Jesus reacted to the thought of being betrayed by Judas, into whose heart Satan had entered.

[11:35]  ⁴ sn Jesus wept. The Greek word used here for Jesus’ weeping (ἐδάκρυσεν, edakrusen) is different from the one used to describe the weeping of Mary and the Jews in v. 33 which indicated loud wailing and cries of lament. This word simply means “to shed tears” and has more the idea of quiet grief. But why did Jesus do this? Not out of grief for Lazarus, since he was about to be raised to life again. L. Morris (John [NICNT], 558) thinks it was grief over the misconception of those round about. But it seems that in the context the weeping is triggered by the thought of Lazarus in the tomb: This was not personal grief over the loss of a friend (since Lazarus was about to be restored to life) but grief over the effects of sin, death, and the realm of Satan. It was a natural complement to the previous emotional expression of anger (11:33). It is also possible that Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus because he knew there was also a tomb for himself ahead.

[11:38]  ⁵ tn Or (perhaps) “Jesus was deeply indignant.”

[11:38]  ⁶ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[12:27]  ⁷ tn Or “save me.”

[12:27]  ⁸ tn Or “this occasion.”

[12:27]  ⁹ tn Or “this occasion.”

[3:5]  ¹⁰ tn The aorist participle περιβλεψάμενος (peribleyameno") has been translated as antecedent (prior) to the action of the main verb. It could also be translated as contemporaneous (“Looking around…he said”).

[3:5]  ¹¹ tn This term is a collective singular in the Greek text.

[3:5]  ¹² sn The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.

[17:16]  ¹³ map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

[17:16]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “greatly upset within him,” but the words “within him” were not included in the translation because they are redundant in English. See L&N 88.189. The term could also be rendered “infuriated.”

[17:16]  ¹⁵ tn Or “when he saw.” The participle θεωροῦντος (qewrounto") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle; it could also be translated as temporal.

[9:2]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “my sorrow is great and the anguish in my heart is unceasing.”

[9:3]  ¹⁷ tn Or “For I would pray.” The implied condition is “if this could save my fellow Jews.”

[9:3]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “brothers.” See BDAG 18-19 s.v. ἀδελφός 2.b.

[9:3]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

[9:2]  ²⁰ tn Grk “my sorrow is great and the anguish in my heart is unceasing.”

[2:12]  ²¹ tn The article with the genitive modifier τῆς πίστεως (th" pistew") is functioning as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[2:12]  ²² tn The genitive τῆς ἐνεργείας (th" energeia") has been translated as an objective genitive, “faith in the power.”

[2:13]  ²³ tn The article τοῖς (tois) with παραπτώμασιν (paraptwmasin) is functioning as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[2:13]  ²⁴ tn The word “nevertheless,” though not in the Greek text, was supplied in the translation to bring out the force of the concessive participle ὄντας (ontas).