Why does the NLT state that Jesus was angry at Lazarus' tomb?
Also John 11:33: "When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him, and he was deeply troubled."
John 11:38
NLT - 38 Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance.
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Tim Maas
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I would say that the anger that Jesus experienced in the cited passage would have been at the sin (and consequent mortality) into which Satan had led humanity, resulting in the kind of intense grief and mourning that people undergo when a loved one dies, and that He was witnessing all around Him (as well as experiencing Himself). (The Greek word translated as "anger" or "angry" (anglicized as "embrimaomai") occurs five times in the gospels (Matthew 9:30; Mark 1:43; Mark 14:5; John 11:33; and John 11:38). It generally is used to characterize a mood of emphatic seriousness, sternness, or chastisement.)
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