Again…moved
Same word as before. Angry. Furious. Snorting. Why would he again be angry? Had his anger subsided since he saw Mary weeping and the Jews weeping? He had wept in between. Did he go from rage to sorrow to rage again or is this all one sweep of emotion? We don’t know how long this took. It may have been a long walk to the tomb. He comes to it now. Now he sees the stone in the mouth of the cave. We don’t know what Jesus knows about his death. We only know that he’s clearly aware he is going to die. Maybe he knows about his own cave and stone. But we know he’s come to destroy death. This is the undercard. This is the Savior confronted with the enemy he has come to defeat. If he can’t win here, can there be hope for a win in Golgotha? The anger here is more focused. It is intensified and directed. He is not angry at the mocking Jews or the slow to believe friends. They are irrelevant now. Now there is only the true enemy and the symbol of his kingdom; a sealed tomb, the destination of sin. He is going to break it. He’s going to open the door a crack right now. He is going to show the mockers and the fearful the king has come and will not be resisted.
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