“This we see in the “loud crying” or the KJV “strong crying” (Hebrews 5:7). Jesus is feeling great emotional and spiritual pain. He is anticipating great pain on the cross. This is not the pain of nails and wood, but of an awful bitter cup that He is going to drink. He embraces the cross with its agony because it is the will of His Father; this He has fully and freely chosen. His will and the will of the Father merge as one will. This is the suffering God who has taken upon Himself the sins of the world. Not just of the world in general, but of the sins of you and me in particular. It is not just the suffering of sin, but it is all human suffering: sickness, disease, infirmity, grief and all pain with its tears.” (From “The Self-Talk of God”, by H. Lamar Smith).
