John Chrysostom

It was His enemies who said this. The very works, which should have evidenced His power, they turn against Him, as if He had not really done them. This is the way that they speak of the miracle of opening the eyes of the man that was born blind. They even prejudge Christ before He has come to the grave, and have not the patience to wait for the issue of the matter.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

But the wicked Jews, despite the great misfortune before their eyes, still do not abandon their malice. They say: "Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?" They say this to disparage the miracle performed on the man born blind (John 9:1–11). They ought to have marveled at that miracle, but on account of the death of Lazarus they cast doubt even on its reality, and without waiting for the outcome of the matter, they pronounce an insulting verdict in advance. …

Commentary on John ↗

Thomas Aquinas

1539 Those who doubted his previous miracle were from the group which envied Christ. The Evangelist says, But some of them, the Jews, said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying? It was the same as saying: If he loved him so much that he now weeps over his death, it seems that he did not want him to die, for sadness concerns things that we do not want. …

Commentary on John ↗

Bonaventure

But some of them said: Could not he who opened the eyes of the man born blind, above in the ninth chapter, have caused that this man should not die? They speak doubtingly, because they seem to have reason on both sides. And indeed he well could have, because, Ecclesiastes 8, "whatever he wills, he shall do"; and Luke 1: "No word shall be impossible with God." But if he had not died, the glory of God would not be manifested in him: therefore this man died, just as that man was born blind: above in the ninth chapter: "Neither did this …

Commentary on John, Chapter 11 ↗