It is one thing to groan for others that you fear are lost, it is yet another to groan for the sin that lives in yourself. And in that sorrow we feel from that conviction Jesus felt. I pray we humble ourselves to this God-Man who suffered the temptations as we do but was blameless and perfection.
Extra Credit: In our text we see His humanity, here within our extra reading from Octavius Winslow we continue this and see Why was His Soul Troubled at the Cross.
Jhn 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, He groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
Jhn 11:34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
- Why did Jesus Groan?
The Greek word here for (groaned) is expressive of deep feeling, sometimes of sorrow, more often of indignation. In this instance the Holy Spirit has recorded the cause of Christs groaning: it was the sight of Mary and her comforters weeping. He was here in the midst of a groaning creation, which sighed and travailed over that which sin had brought in. And this He felt acutely. The original suggests that He was distressed to the extremist degree: moved to a holy indignation and sorrow at the terrific brood which sin had borne. Agitated by a righteous detestation of what evil had wrought in the world. (And was troubled) is, more literally, (he troubled himself); He caused Himself to be troubled by what made others weep and wail. And how this (groaning) and (troubling) of himself brings out the perfections of the incarnate Son! He would not raise Lazarus until He had entered in spirit into the solemnity of the awfulness of death. Mark 8:12 intimates that the miracles which He performed cost Him something. Plainer still is the testimony of Matthew 8:17: (Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses), He felt the burden of sickness before He removed it. (from A.W. Pink)
