And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it. "Mine eye" said the weeping prophet, "affecteth mine heart" (Lamentations 3:51); and the heart in turn fills the eye. Under this sympathetic law of the relation of mind and body, Jesus, in His beautiful, tender humanity, was constituted even as we. What a contrast to the immediately preceding profound joy! But He yielded Himself alike freely to both.