Read The book of John
Lazarus a good of friend of Jesus had become very sick and was dying. Mary and Martha send Jesus a message to come. However Jesus was not able to and Lazarus died. A few days later Jesus comes and find many friends and Mary and Martha weeping and grieving for Lazarus, look at verse 33-35. Jesus sees them weeping and then is moved in His spirit and He himself weeps. Jesus here gives us an example of mourning. He then goes on to raise Lazarus from the dead. I believe no matter if Jesus had raised Lazarus or not He would have mourned and then comforted all those who were there. I realize that the mourning in the beatitude is talking about mourning over sin, but understand that death is the result of sin. Also I realize that this comfort is the comfort we receive from salvation and forgiveness, but remember when a believer dies they are ushered into the presence of God. So as Jesus weeps, He weeps because His friend has died but also because this is the result of sin. Jesus was moved with compassion and mourning because of His friend but also because of the reality of sins payment. The practice of mourning in our lives should cause us to tell everyone we can about Christ so that they can experience the freedom of salvation.
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