In this story, it would seem as if Jesus could not look upon grief, without that grief becoming His own. In the similar case of Lazarus, it was the bitter thought of a lost and departed friend which opened the fountain of the Lord's own tears. At Bethany (as with here at Nain), it was simply the spectacle of human suffering that made its irresistible appeal to the emotional side of the Jesus' nature. The anguish of human compassion moved the Rock of Ages, and streams of tenderness gushed forth. "When Jesus saw Mary weeping, and the Jews weeping which came with her …Jesus wept." Likewise, when the Lord saw this poor widow who had lost her only son, "He had compassion on her." Jesus had probably heard her bitter, heart-rending sobbing in the midst of the mourners, and this quickly drew His attention. So He uttered a soothing sympathetic word before He uttered the divine instruction that brought forth this astounding miracle – "I command you young man to get up!"