“(Hom. lxiii. 1) It was His enemies who said this. The very works, which should have evidenced His power, they turn against Him, as if He had not really done them. This is the way that they speak of the miracle of opening the eyes of the man that was born blind. They even prejudge Christ before He has come to the grave…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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37And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
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35Jesus wept.
36Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
— John 11:37 —
38Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.