About this passageFrom the account of the raising of Lazarus. Jesus arrives at Bethany four days after the death and is met first by Martha and then by Mary, both of whom say the same thing: that he could have prevented it. What follows here is his response before anything is undone. The verse "Jesus wept" is the shortest in most English versions, and the tradition has long noticed that it comes from someone the narrative says already knows how the story ends.
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, "Where have you laid him?"
They told him, "Lord, come and see."
Jesus wept.
The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"
In plainer words
Jesus came to the village where his friend had died. He saw the man's sister crying and the neighbours crying with her, and something in him broke. He asked where they had put the body. And then he cried too. The people standing there said to each other: look how much he loved him. He is about to raise Lazarus. He weeps first anyway.
A restatement in modern English, written for this collection. The passage above is the text; this is one way of putting it.