Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
The matter being determined, that Christ will go to Judea, and his disciples with him, they address themselves to their journey; in this journey some circumstances happened which the other evangelists record, as the healing of the blind man at Jericho, and the conversion of Zaccheus.
Commenting on John 11:17-32
The Jews then which were with her in the house,.... Who came from Jerusalem to visit this afflicted family, and continued in the house with them and comforted her; which was the end of their coming, Joh 11:19. This they endeavoured to do, though they did not succeed: when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily, and went out, followed her; they did not...
Jesus was not yet come into the town - As the Jewish burying places were without their cities and villages, it appears that the place where our Savior was, when Martha met him, was not far from the place where Lazarus was buried. See the note on Luk 7:12.