Show Don't Tell: John 11:17-37

Instead of saying "Jesus wept with Mary and Martha," see the tears flow. On his arrival, Jesus finds that Lazarus has already been in the tomb for four days. Bethany is less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews have come to comfort Martha and Mary. When Martha hears that Jesus is coming, she goes out to meet him, but Mary stays at home. "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask." "Your brother will rise again." "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?" "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world." She calls Mary, who comes and falls at his feet: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus sees her weeping, and the Jews who came along with her also weeping, he is deeply moved in spirit and troubled. "Where have you laid him?" "Come and see, Lord." Jesus wept. The shortest verse—and the most human. Some Jews: "See how he loved him!" Others: "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"