She goeth (i7ayet). Withdraweth from our company. See on vi. 215 viii. 21.
To weep (iva davon). Rev., in margin, wail. The word means lowd weeping. See Matt. ii. 18; Mark v. 38; and on Luke vi. 21; vil. 32.
33. He groaned in the spirit (éveBpepnoaro TO TVvEevpartl). See on Mark i. 43. The word for groaned occurs three times elsewhere: Matt. ix. 30; Mark i. 43; xiv. 5. In every case it expresses a charge, or remonsirance, accompanied with a feel- ing of displeasure. On this passage there are two lines of in- terpretation, both of them assuming the meaning just stated. (1) Te wvetpars, the spirit, is regarded as the object of Jesus’ inward charge or remonstrance. This is explained variously: as that Jesus sternly rebuked the natural shrinking of His human spirit, and summoned it to the decisive conflict with death; or that He checked its impulse to put forth His divine energy at once. (2) Takes in the spirit, as representing the sphere of feeling, as xiii. 21; Mark viii. 12; Luke x.21. Some explain the feeling as indignation at the hypocritical mourning of the Jews, or at their unbelief and the sisters’ misapprehen- sion; others as indignation at the temporary triumph of Satan, who had the power of death.
The interpretation which explains T@ wvedparu as the sphere of feeling is to be preferred. Comp. ver. 38, in. himself. The nature of the particular emotion of Jesus must remain largely a matter of conjecture. Rev. renders, in margin, was moved with indignation im the spirit.
Was troubled (érdpafev éavrov). Lit., troubled Himself. Probably of the outward manifestation of His strong feeling.
35. Wept (éddxpucev). A different verb from that in ver. 31. From 8d«pu, tear, and meaning ¢o shed tears, to weep silently. Only here in the New Testament. Knralo, to weep audibly, is once used of our Lord in Luke xix. 41. ‘‘ The very Gospel in which the deity of Jesus is most clearly asserted, is also that