Why Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem (Luke

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem in Luke 19:41-44. After the triumphal entry, in the midst of the shouting, worshiping, multitude, was a weeping King. Jesus saw the Jews' coming judgment for rejecting him in five days.

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00:00 Why Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem
08:30 Lesson One: Jeremiah’s weeping is a type of Jesus’s weeping.
23:01 Lesson Two: The Jews rejected peace when they rejected the Prince of Peace.
33:28 Lesson Three: Jesus wept over Jerusalem because of the coming judgment.

All the Gospels record Jesus’ Triumphal Entry, but Luke records something completely shocking that is not in the other Gospels:

Luke 19:41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,

You will get much more from your Bible reading if you picture what is being described, and this is one of those moments that you really need to think about to understand how dramatic it was. In the midst of this shouting, worshiping, multitude was a weeping King. Why is that? It makes absolutely no sense. This is the opposite of what we would expect to read. A moment that should have been filled with joy is instead filled with intense sadness. Jesus’ behavior is so shocking, because the Jews misunderstood Old Testament Prophecies of Jesus’ Coming. The Jews want to be saved from Rome, but Jesus is coming to save them from the true and greater enemies we face: sin and death. So, even though:

It looks like they were accepting Jesus, they were rejecting him.
It looks like they were honoring him, but they were dishonoring him.
It looks like they loved him, but they hated him.
Because they completely misunderstood Jesus’ first coming, he said:

Luke 19:44b because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

This is another way of saying they did not understand Jesus’ first coming. They completely misunderstood who Jesus was and what he was doing.

The Jews Rejected Peace When They Rejected the Prince of Peace

Luke 19:42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day (referring to the day prophesied by Daniel’s Seventy Weeks) the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

The word “Salem” in the name Jerusalem is shalom, which means peace. So, there is a play on words. The city whose name means peace would not be experiencing peace. Jesus said they did not know what would make for their peace. It would have meant peace for them if they received him as their Messiah. But because they are going to reject him and call out for his crucifixion in a few days, they are rejecting the peace they could have had. Go forward five days to when Jesus was before Pilate:

Matthew 27:24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” 25 And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

You wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t recorded, but Pilate was trying to STOP Jesus from being crucified, but the Jews were so intent on seeing him crucified Pilate believed he had to turn Jesus over to them to prevent a riot. That’s how much they despised Jesus at this moment: they were going to riot if they could not murder him.

They didn’t just ask for Jesus’ blood to be on them, they also asked that his blood would be on their children. And this is exactly what they have gotten over the last 2,000 years.

Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they (referring to the Jews) be secure who love you! 7 Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”

The opposite of these verses has happened. It is very fitting to be reading this account with the tragic events unfolding in Israel. Every day I see new articles about the Jews being killed.

Jesus Saw the Jews’ Coming Judgment

Jesus describes happening 40 years after they reject him:

Luke 19:43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44a and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one...

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