50 Then Joseph ^(A)fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.

⁴ I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also ^(A)bring you up again, and ^(B)Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.”

The Coming of the Lord

¹³ But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, ^(A)that you may not grieve as others do ^(B)who have no hope.

⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, ^(A)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

² Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.

^35 (A)Jesus wept. ³⁶ So the Jews said, “See ^(B)how he loved him!” ³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he ^(C)who opened the eyes of the blind man ^(D)also have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus

³⁸ Then Jesus, ^(E)deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was ^(F)a cave, and ^(G)a stone lay against it.

³⁸ They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus^[a] saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. ³⁹ And when he had entered, he said to them, ^(A)“Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but ^(B)sleeping.”

The Death of Elisha

¹⁴ Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, ^(A)“My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

^7 (A)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ^8 (B)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

² And Sarah died at ^(A)Kiriath-arba (that is, ^(B)Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.