So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. »Master, if you had been here,« she said, »my brother would not have died.
While He was thus speaking, a Ruler came up and profoundly bowing said, »My daughter is just dead; but come and put your hand upon her and she will return to life.«
(It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)
So the sisters sent to Him to say, »Master, he whom you hold dear is ill.«
Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, »Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.«
But others of them asked, »Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?«