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I See Jesus

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Song Meaning

Absence drives every verse. The singer lists what she never witnessed: the teardrops in the garden, the nail-scarred hands, the crown of thorns, the blood that flowed from Calvary, the empty tomb and the stone rolled back. None of it was seen firsthand, and the song says so plainly.

Each list resolves into the same line, "But I see Jesus in every tear I cry." The chorus makes it personal and present-tense, with Jesus near in sorrow and listening, as "He hears me when I call." The singer wonders what others see "through tear fill eyes," yet keeps her own answer simple.

The fourth verse carries the claim from the cross to the tomb: "But I know He lives today." It also looks ahead to a day she cannot date, when he comes "to take His waiting bride." The comfort rests on trust rather than sight, much like Jesus' blessing on those who have not seen and still believe, and Peter's words about loving an unseen Lord.

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I didn’t see the teardrops fall in the garden where He cried.

I didn’t see the nails scared hands or where they pierced His side.

I don’t know what Jesus saw as He looked through tear fill eyes.

But I see Jesus in every tear I cry.

I didn’t see the crown of thorns they placed upon His head.

I didn’t see the strips He bore or hear the words He said

I didn’t see the blood that flowed from Calvary where He died.

But I see Jesus in every tear I cry.

I see Jesus

In every tear that falls

I feel His presents now

He hears me when I call

I don’t know what others see

When they look through tear fill eyes

But I see Jesus in every tear I cry

I didn’t see the empty tomb where my saviour laid.

I didn’t see the stone rolled back.

But I know He lives today.

I don’t when He’s coming back to take His waiting bride.

But I see Jesus in every tear I cry.

I see Jesus

In every tear that falls

I feel His presents now

He hears me when I call

I don’t know what others see

When they look through tear fill eyes

But I see Jesus in every tear I cry

But I see Jesus in every tear I cry.

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