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|Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

|Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

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|As soon as Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell to the ground at His feet, and sobbed, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

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|This is an example of where the Greek tenses cannot be expressed accurately in English. Mary uses the imperfect and the aorist in her exclamation, which would literally be, "Lord, if you were being here (continuous aspect), my brother did not die (puncticular aspect)," which sounds terrible in English. Thus the translation formula calls for us to translate it as though it is using completed aspect in both parts. This is called a "Contrary to fact conditional," and is difficult to translate the exact nuance found in the Greek. Fortunately, the subtleties of the Greek don't really change the force of this particular construction to any appreciable degree, so the normal translation formula works.

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|When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

|When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

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|When Jesus saw her and the Jews who came with her weeping, His spirit was grieved, and He was deeply saddened.

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|Basically, when Jesus saw the depth of Mary's grieving, it broke His heart. Despite the fact that He knew He was going to raise Lazarus from the dead, and thus He knew that her grief would soon be turned to gladness, seeing her in pain still hurt.

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