Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Said I not unto thee? (Ouk eipon soi). Jesus pointedly reminds Martha of his promise to raise Lazarus (verses John 11:25 f.).
That if thou believedst (oti ean pisteushv). Indirect discourse with ean and the first aorist active subjunctive (condition of third class) retained after the secondary tense eipon. He had not said this very phrase, ean pisteushv, to Martha, but he did say to her: Pisteueiv touto; (Believest thou this?). He meant to test Martha as to her faith already hinted at (verse John 11:22) on this very point. Jesus had also spoken of increase of faith on the part of the disciples (verse John 11:15).
Thou shouldest see the glory of God (oyh thn docan tou qeou). Future middle indicative of the old defective verb oraw retained in the conclusion of this condition in indirect discourse. Jesus means the glory of God as shown in the resurrection of Lazarus as he had already said to the disciples (verse John 11:4) and as he meant Martha to understand (verse John 11:25) and may in fact have said to her (the report of the conversation is clearly abridged). Hence Bernard's difficulty in seeing how Martha could understand the words of Jesus about the resurrection of Lazarus here and now seems fanciful and far-fetched.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 11:40:
John 12:28
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