And some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
And some of then said, Could not this Prayer of Manasseh , &c. Certainly He was able to do that, but would not, because He had determined to do something far greater, namely, to raise him up when dead and four days buried, which the Jews thought impossible, and therefore wondered that Christ had not hindered the death of Lazarus.