"But Ye Would Not … "

There could have been few experiences sadder than to have been with the Saviour as he wept for the people of Jerusalem a few days before he was to be crucified.

Who can know the depths of grief that tore through his great heart as he sat above the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives and surveyed Jerusalem?

Jesus bewailed their insensitivity to his Divinity, their not heeding his calls to repentance, and their negativity to ‘born again of the water and of the Spirit,’[1] and their failure to recognise him as the Promised One sent by his Father, who is also his God, so that by reason of his infinite Atonement and their faith in Jesus they would accept him as Saviour, Lord, and Master, who alone would lead them to a fulness of salvation as a 'joint heir'[2] with him, the Son of God, being granted, as he had, 'all that the Father hath.'[3]

And, therefore, Jesus wept.

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1: John 3:16