Charles Ellicott Commentary John 11:37

"But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die?" — John 11:37 (ASV)

And some of them said.—Better, But some of them said—that is, another group of the Jews, different from those mentioned in the previous verse.

Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind...?—They refer to the greatest miracle which had taken place within the limits of their own knowledge. The other miracles of raising the dead they must have heard of, but had not believed. What they think of here is not raising the dead, but the possibility of preventing death; and their question is meant to imply that He could not have prevented this death. If He could, surely He would have done so for one whom He had loved, and would have come at once, instead of waiting until death had taken place. The inference they would draw is that, after all, the present failure is a proof that He did not open the eyes of the blind.