(PREACHED 9 SEPTEMBER 1886) Might have been, or may be ‘Some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?’ John 11:37 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Genesis 43:1–15 Perhaps the bitterest griefs that men know come not from facts, but from things which might have been, as they imagine, that is to say, they dig wells of supposition and drink the brackish waters of regret. The sisters of Lazarus did this. Each said,