John 11:14

14. Plainly… dead Jesus has suggested the lesson that he can waken alike the apathy of sleep and of death; he now, to shut off their hint, passes from the figure, and pronounces the solemn word, dead. Olshausen remarks that the reality of Lazarus’s death, instead of swoon or syncope, cannot be proved except by Jesus’s own assertion. It would, then, doubtless follow that the event could be no proof of Jesus’s divine mission. To prove the miracle by Christ, and then prove Christ by the miracle, would be reasoning in a circle. But the credibility of no one miracle depends on its own single proof. An isolated, disconnected miracle would be, without very powerful evidence indeed, unworthy of examination. See note on Luke 15:31.