Be Angry and Do Not Sin

 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.  And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept.  John 11:33-35

Rather, the same sin and death, the same unbelief, that prompted his outrage, also generated his grief. Those who follow Jesus as his disciples today do well to learn the same tension–that grief and compassion without outrage reduce to mere sentiment, while outrage without grief hardens into self-righteous arrogance and irascibility (hot-tempered, easily provoked).

Carson, D. A.. The Gospel according to John (The Pillar New Testament Commentary (PNTC)) (p. 549). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition. 

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