John Chapter 11 verse 21 Holy Bible
Martha therefore said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
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Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.
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Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
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Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
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Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
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Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - Martha therefore (having met her Lord) said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here - the εἰ η΅ς ω΅δε expresses no complaint: "If thou hadst been here," a simple condition of what is now an impossible event - my brother had not died. Meyer says, "If thou weft making thy residence in Bethany rather than in Peraea." This is somewhat unnatural, and would have been a complaint. Her faith had at least ground enough for this assurance, but she mounts above it. The two sisters, with their contrasted natures, had grasped the life-giving, joy-diffusing, heaven-revealing powers of Jesus. They had believed in him, with a gracious abandonment of all prejudice and in the sweeping force of a great illuminating love. They had said often this same thing to one another, and now Martha pours her high persuasion into the ears of her Lord; but she proceeds further.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.--We have exactly the same words spoken by Mary in John 11:32. They are the utterance of the thought which had already been expressed in their message (John 11:3), and had, we may think, been spoken more than once by the sisters to each other. These sisters are among the many who had received our Lord in the fulness of a true faith, of whom the Gospel narrative tells us nothing, or gives us, as here, but a passing glimpse. Their belief is stated in the definiteness of full conviction; but they, like the courtier, connect the power to save with the bodily presence of our Lord. (Comp. John 4:49.)
