33. The word ἐνεβριμήσατο which we translate *groaned*, is far more expressive of indignation than of grief. So Tolet., Beel., Trench, &c. Christ’s indignation on the present occasion was on account of sin which brought death upon Lazarus and the whole human race, or rather perhaps on account of the incredulity of the Jews, which made this miracle and the sorrow consequent upon the death of Lazarus necessary. *Troubled himself.* These words imply Christ’s supreme control over the passions of His human nature. 34. Et dixit: Ubi posuistis 34. And said: Where have you eum? Dicunt ei: Domine, veni, laid him? They say to him: et vide. Lord, come and see. 34. He knew well, but probably wished to excite their faith and hope by the question. 35. Et lacrymatus est Iesus. 35. And Jesus wept. 35. Truly this is a touching scene! The Lord of heaven weeps over the grave of His departed friend. In no other part of the Gospels are the human and Divine sides of our Blessed Lord’s character more clearly brought out than in this beautiful story of the raising of Lazarus. Christ as man weeps over him, whom He is about as God to raise from the dead. 36. Dixerunt ergo Iudaei: Ecce 36. The Jews therefore said: quomodo amabat eum. Behold how he loved him. 37. Quidam autem ex ipsis 37. But some of them said: dixerunt: Non poterat hic, qui Could not he that opened the aperuit oculos caeci nati, eyes of the man born blind, facere ut hic non moreretur? have caused that this man should not die? 38. Iesus ergo rursum fremens 38. Jesus therefore again in semetipso, venit ad groaning in himself, cometh to monumentum: erat autem the sepulchre: Now it was a spelunca: et lapis cave; and a stone was laid superpositus erat ei. over it. 38. Caves were the usual family vaults of the Jews, sometimes natural, sometimes artificial and hollowed out of a rock. See Gen. xxiii. 9; Judith xvi. 24; Isai. xxii. 26; John xix. 41. 39. Ait Iesus: Tollite 39. Jesus saith: Take away the lapidem: Dicit ei Martha, stone. Martha, the sister of soror eius qui mortuus fuerat: him that was dead, saith to Domine, iam foetet, him: Lord, by this time he quatriduanus est enim. stinketh, for he is now of four days. 39. Martha evidently imagined that Jesus wished merely to see her brother’s corpse, and she shudders at the thought of its being exposed, now decomposing, to the gaze of the crowd. Her words and Christ’s reply, both show that she did not _now_ hope that Jesus could raise her brother who was four days dead. A little before indeed she had hoped for even this (verse 22); but now her faith began to waver. “Habuit ergo alternantes motus gratiae et naturae, fidei et diffidentiae, spei et desperationis de resurrectione Lazari” (A Lap.).