John Gill, on John 11:14

“Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.”

“Then said Jesus unto them plainly,.... Without a figure, when he perceived they did not understand him, and yet it was a very easy and usual metaphor which he had made use of; but such was the present stupidity of their minds, that they did not take in his meaning: wherefore, without reproaching them with it, he said to them in so many words, Lazarus is dead. The Persic version reads, "Lazarus is dead indeed", as he really was.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.