12. So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”
13. (Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about real sleep.)
14. So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
15. and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16. Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, so that we may die with him.”
17. So when he arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb.
18. (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.