Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
So she said to Elijah, “Why have you done this to me, man of God? Have you come to me to call attention to my guilt and to kill my son?”
They spoke against God, and said, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Again and again they tested God, provoked the Holy One of Israel.
While he was saying these things to them, an official came forward, knelt down before him, and said, “My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.
So the sisters sent word to him, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.”
When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?”