John 11:36 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Then said the Jewsi.e., part of them. (See the next verse.) The term “Jews” is repeated with a frequency (John 11:31; John 11:33) which makes prominent their hostile position.

Behold how he loved him! — Or, more exactly, how He used to love him. The word used is the strong word for love which the sisters had themselves used in John 11:3. “How He must have loved him,” they think, “during his life, if He thus sheds tears for him after his death!”

John 11:36

36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!