Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Ver. 21. Lord, if thou hadst been here, &c.] Was she sure of that? but why was he dead, if Christ would not, though he were not there? We are all too much fastened to his bodily presence: howbeit, we never come to believe indeed till we are well persuaded of his omnipotence. But how fitly may many a poor soul say to the bloody non-resident, Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother, child, husband, had not been dead in his sins?