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Joh 11:11. Ταῦτα-λέγει) These things said He, and after this saying forthwith He saith, etc. Comp. Joh 11:7, “Then after this saith He.”-λέγει, He saith) He said it at the very time in which Lazarus had died. Comp. ch. Joh 4:52, [The nobleman’s son recovered of the fever] “at the same hour in the which Jesus said, Thy son liveth.” The disciples also had heard of the illness of Lazarus, Joh 11:3-4. No one had announced his death; and yet Jesus knew it.-ἡμῶν, our) With what an entirely human feeling [humanness] Jesus communicates [imparts] His friendship to His disciples!-κεκοίμηται, is fallen asleep) Death is the sleep of the pious in the language of heaven; but the disciples did not here understand His language. The liberal freedom of the Divine language is incomparable: but the dulness of men causes that Scripture often descends to our more sombre mode of speaking. Comp. Mat 16:11, etc., “How is it that you do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees?”