Other Usage in Media
"Jesus wept" features prominently in various stories, including an episode of The Waltons, the film Barbershop 2: Back in Business and the book The Color of Water, as a Bible verse that is easy for a child to memorize.
In Clive Barker's 1987 horror film Hellraiser during a torture scene towards the end of the film, character Frank Cotton utters his final words: "Jesus wept", as the film explores the theme of pain as a source of pleasure. Cotton's use of the words is sampled in the track "Revaluation of All Values" by UK black metal band Anaal Nathrakh, "Fascist Jock Itch" by Canadian band Skinny Puppy, and "Jesus Wept" by Belgian industrial act Suicide Commando on their 2000 album Mindstrip.
The words are also used as the title of various other works. Jesus Wept is an album by rap group P.M. Dawn. "Jesus Wept" is also the title of a song by Suffocation on the 1991 album Effigy of the Forgotten. Jayzus Wept is a short book by Pete St. John; the title is the phonetic spelling of the phrase as spoken in Dublin, Ireland. "Jesus Chorou" (in Portuguese) is a song by Brazilian hip-hop group Racionais MC's. British experimental music group Current 93's album Dogs Blood Rising contains a song entitled "Raio No Terrasu (Jesus Wept)."
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