Then when Jesus came
The Alexandrian copy, and all the Oriental versions add, "to
Bethany"; though it seems by what follows, that he was not come
to the town itself, but near it; and it looks as if it was not
far from Lazarus's grave; and it was usual to bury without the
city; and here he had intelligence of his, Lazarus's, death, and
how long he had been dead:
for he found he had lain in the grave four days
already;
it is very likely that he died the same day that Mary and Martha
sent to Christ to acquaint him with his sickness, and the same
day he was buried; for the Jews used to bury the same day a
person died, and so they do now: and after Christ had this
account, he stayed two days where he was, and on the third day,
he proposed to his disciples to go into Judea; and very probably
on that, or on the next day, which was the fourth, they set out
and came to Bethany; (See Gill on John
11:39).