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Joh 11:16. Ὁ λεγόμενος Δίδυμος, who is called Didymus) John wrote in Greek.-καὶ ἡμεῖς, let us also) Thomas perhaps had had some peculiar tie of connection with Lazarus.-ἵνα ἀποθάνωμεν, that we may die) Thomas seems to have taken the words of Jesus immediately preceding in this sense, as though Jesus would have been about to die with Lazarus, had He been present, and as though, now that the faith of His disciples had been still further established, He was about to depart this life at Bethany, and that by the plots of the Jews against Him, Joh 11:8, “The Jews of late sought to stone Thee.” He [Thomas] was, as it were, standing mid-way [indifferent] between this life and death, without sorrow or joy, ready to die; not however without faith. Comp. ch. Joh 14:5, “Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest.” In this view he seems to have understood the πρός, unto, in the discourse of Jesus, in the same sense as it occurs 2Sa 12:23, [David of his dead child] “I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”-μετʼ αὐτοῦ, with Him) with Jesus. Not unlike is the meaning of Peter’s words, Luk 22:33, “Lord, I am ready to go with Thee into prison and to death.”