Luke 19:41
New International Version
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it

New Living Translation
But as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead, he began to weep.

English Standard Version
And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,

Berean Standard Bible
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Berean Literal Bible
And as He drew near, having seen the city, He wept over it,

King James Bible
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

New King James Version
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,

New American Standard Bible
When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

NASB 1995
When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

NASB 1977
And when He approached, He saw the city and wept over it,

Legacy Standard Bible
And as He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He cried over it,

Amplified Bible
As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people],

Christian Standard Bible
As he approached and saw the city, he wept for it,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,

American Standard Version
And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when he came near and he saw the city he wept over it.

Contemporary English Version
When Jesus came closer and could see Jerusalem, he cried

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:

English Revised Version
And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When he came closer and saw the city, he began to cry.

Good News Translation
He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,

International Standard Version
When he came closer and saw the city, he began to grieve over it:

Literal Standard Version
And when He came near, having seen the city, He wept over it,

Majority Standard Bible
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

New American Bible
As he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

NET Bible
Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,

New Revised Standard Version
As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it,

New Heart English Bible
When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

Webster's Bible Translation
And when he had come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

Weymouth New Testament
When He came into full view of the city, He wept aloud over it, and exclaimed,

World English Bible
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

Young's Literal Translation
And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
40“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.” 41 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it 42and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.…

Cross References
2 Kings 8:11
Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.

Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, "Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Isaiah 28:21
For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.

Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Luke 13:35
Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Luke 19:42
and said, "If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.


Treasury of Scripture

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

and wept.

Psalm 119:53,136,158
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law…

Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

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Luke 19
1. Of Zacchaeus a tax collector.
11. The ten minas.
28. Jesus rides into Jerusalem with triumph;
41. weeps over it;
45. drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple;
47. Teaching daily in it. The rulers seek to destroy him, but fear the people.














(41) He beheld the city, and wept over it.--This, and the tears over the grave of Lazarus (John 11:35), are the only recorded instances of our Lord's tears. It is significant that in the one case they flow from the intensity of personal friendship, in the other from that of the intense love of country which we know as patriotism. Neither element of character could well be wanting in the perfect pattern of a holiness truly human.

Verse 41. - He beheld the city. It was a very different view to what the traveller of the present day would see from the same spot. Though Jerusalem, when Jesus Christ was teaching on earth, was subject to the stranger Herodian, and the Herodian to the great Italian power, yet the beauty and glory of the city were remarkable. Still glittered in the midst of the great city that "mass of gold and snow" known as the temple. The far-extending suburbs were covered with the gardens and palaces of the wealthy Jews. But the mighty memories which hung so thickly round the sacred city and the glorious house of God after all constituted its chief charm. What might not that city have been! what splendid and far-reaching work might it not have done l and now the cup of its iniquities was just brimming over; only a few more short years, and a silence the most awful would brood over the shapeless ruins of what was once Jerusalem and her house on Zion, the joy of the whole earth. And wept over it. No merely silent tears of mute sorrow, but ἔκλαυσεν, he wept aloud. All the insults and the sufferings of the Passion were powerless to elicit from the Man of sorrows that expression of intense grief which the thought of the ruin of the loved city called forth.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
As
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

[Jesus] approached [Jerusalem]
ἤγγισεν (ēngisen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1448: Trans: I bring near; intrans: I come near, approach. From eggus; to make near, i.e. approach.

[and] saw
ἰδὼν (idōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

city,
πόλιν (polin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4172: A city, the inhabitants of a city. Probably from the same as polemos, or perhaps from polus; a town.

He wept
ἔκλαυσεν (eklausen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2799: To weep, weep for, mourn, lament. Of uncertain affinity; to sob, i.e. Wail aloud.

over
ἐπ’ (ep’)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

it
αὐτήν (autēn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Feminine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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