John 11:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This lets us know, that Christ was not in Judea when he received the tidings of Lazarus's sickness, but in Peraea, or Galilee; but he presently upon it takes up thoughts of returning again into that province, and indeed he was now preparing for his last journey thither: however, the sickness of Lazarus, and his raising from the dead, was one occasion of his so soon going up; from which his disciples would have discouraged him, as followeth...(see 1 Thessalonians 11:8).