11. These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
12. His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13. But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.
14. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
15. And I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there, that you may believe: but let us go to him.
16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17. Jesus therefore came, and found that he had been four days already in the grave.
18. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)
19. And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.