These sayings remind us
I. That we have in Christ One who is human, yet Divine.
II. One whose death as our Saviour is all important, and not less his life.
III. One who presides over the world where we are going, and over the world in which we now are.
J. Ker, Sermons,2nd series, p. 281.
References: John 12:9. Homiletic Quarterly,vol. iii., p. 280. John 12:10. Homilist,4th series, vol. i., p. 210. John 12:11. S. Cox, Expositions,vol. i., p. 428.