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b'In\\nthis story, it would seem as if Jesus could not look upon grief,\\nwithout that grief becoming His own. In the similar case of Lazarus, it\\nwas the bitter thought of a lost and departed friend which opened the\\nfountain of the Lord\\u2019s own tears.\\xa0 At Bethany (as with here at Nain),\\nit was simply the spectacle of human suffering that made its\\nirresistible appeal to the emotional side of the Jesus\\u2019 nature. The\\nanguish of human compassion moved the Rock of Ages, and streams of\\ntenderness gushed forth. "When Jesus saw Mary weeping, and the Jews\\nweeping which came with her \\u2026Jesus wept." Likewise, when the Lord saw\\nthis poor widow who had lost her only son, "He had compassion on her."\\nJesus had probably heard her bitter, heart-rending sobbing in the midst\\nof the mourners, and this quickly drew His attention. So He uttered a\\nsoothing sympathetic word before He uttered the divine instruction that\\nbrought forth this astounding miracle \\u2013 \\u201cI command you young man to get\\nup!\\u201d'