12. The disciples answered, “If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well.”
13. Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought he meant natural sleep.
14. So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
15. but for your sake I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe. Let us go to him.”
16. Thomas (called the Twin) said to his fellow-disciples, “Let us all go with the Teacher, so that we may die with him!”
17. When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days before.
18. Bethany was less than three kilometres from Jerusalem,
19. and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary to comfort them over their brother's death.
20. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed in the house.
21. Martha said to Jesus, “If you had been here, Lord, my brother would not have died!
22. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask him for.”
23. “Your brother will rise to life,” Jesus told her.
24. “I know,” she replied, “that he will rise to life on the last day.”
25. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;
26. and all those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27. “Yes, Lord!” she answered. “I do believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
28. After Martha said this, she went back and called her sister Mary privately. “The Teacher is here,” she told her, “and is asking for you.”
29. When Mary heard this, she got up and hurried out to meet him.
30. (Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.)
31. The people who were in the house with Mary, comforting her, followed her when they saw her get up and hurry out. They thought that she was going to the grave to weep there.
32. Mary arrived where Jesus was, and as soon as she saw him, she fell at his feet. “Lord,” she said, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died!”