5. (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
6. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.
7. Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
8. The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”
9. Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10. But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11. After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”
12. Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
13. (Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)
14. Then Jesus told 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. So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”
17. When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.
18. (Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
19. so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)
20. So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
21. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.