'Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, 'Sir, come and see;'

though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply.

"Where have you buried him?" he asked. "Come and see, Master," they answered.

Where have ye laid him? - Jesus spoke as a man. In all this transaction he manifested the deep sympathies of a man; and though he who could raise the dead man up could also know where he was, yet he chose to lead them to the grave by inducing them to point the way, and hence, he asked this question.

And said, where have ye laid him?.... This he might say as man, though he, as the omniscient God, knew where he was laid; and that it might appear there was no juggle and contrivance between him, and the relations of the deceased; and to raise some expectation of what he intended to do; and to draw the Jews thither, that they might be witnesses of the miracle he was about to work.
They say unto him; That is, Martha and Mary,
Lord, come and see; it being but a little way off.

Where have ye laid him? . . . Lord, come and see--Perhaps it was to retain composure enough to ask this question, and on receiving the answer to proceed with them to the spot, that He checked Himself.