Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Then she said to Elijah, “O man of God, what have you done to me? Have you come here to point out my sins and kill my son?”
They even spoke against God himself, saying, “God can’t give us food in the wilderness.
Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
As Jesus was saying this, the leader of a synagogue came and knelt before him. “My daughter has just died,” he said, “but you can bring her back to life again if you just come and lay your hand on her.”
This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick.
So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”