Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
In the grave - It was sometimes the custom to embalm the dead, but in this case it does not seem to have been done. He was probably buried soon after death.
Adam Clarke
He had lain in the grave four days already - Our Lord probably left Bethabara the day, or the day after, Lazarus died. He came to Bethany three days after; and it appears that Lazarus had been buried…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Then when Jesus came Better, When therefore Jesus came, not to the house, nor to Bethany, but to the vicinity (Joh 11:11; Joh 11:11). In Joh 11:11 also -then" should be therefore, S. John's favourite…