John 11:45,46 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then many of the Jews, which came with Mary And were eye-witnesses of this illustrious miracle; believed on him As the Messiah. Indeed, so incontestable a proof of his power and authority left them no room to doubt of his character. They knew that no impostor could perform any miracle; and so great a one as the resurrection of a person who had been in the grave four days was a miracle worthy of the Messiah himself. Willing, therefore, to know the truth, they yielded to the force of this evidence, and it is marvellous that all present did not yield to it; for, considering the nature and circumstances of this wonderful display of divine power, it surely ought to have silenced the peevishness of cavilling, overcome the obstinacy of prejudice, and put to shame the impudence of malice in every one that was a witness of it. And we may well be astonished to find that the cry, Lazarus, come forth, did not produce on all present an effect somewhat similar to that which it had on Lazarus. It raised him from the natural death, and one would suppose might have raised the most stupid of the spectators from the spiritual, by working in them the living principle of saving faith. But, alas! this was not the case. For, some of them Blinded by prejudice, and that spirit of the world which is enmity against God, departed from this astonishing spectacle as firmly resolved to oppose Jesus as ever; they went their ways to the Pharisees Namely, the chiefs of the sect who lived in the city; and told them what things Jesus had done In order, as is evident, to induce them to take such measures as might crush Christ's growing reputation. What a dreadful confirmation of that weighty truth, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead!