17. ὅτε τ. Λάζ. See on Joh 12:9. The multitude, therefore, that was with Him when He raised … were bearing witness. See on Joh 12:41. This special mention of the ‘calling from the tomb’ is very natural in one who was there, and remembered the φωνὴ μεγάλη (Joh 11:43) and the excitement which it caused; not so in a writer of fiction.