Adam Clarke, on John 11:3

“His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.”

“He whom thou lovest is sick - Nothing could be more simple, nor more modest, than this prayer: they do not say, Come and heal him: or, Command the disease to depart even where thou art, and it will obey thee: - they content themselves with simply stating the case, and using an indirect but a most forcible argument, to induce our Lord to show forth his power and goodness: - He is sick, and thou lovest him; therefore thou canst neither abandon him, not us.”

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