1. Now there was a certain sick man, Lazarus of Bethania, from the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2. And Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was sick.
3. Therefore, his sisters sent to him, saying: "Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick."
4. Then, upon hearing this, Jesus said to them: "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."
5. Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.
6. Even so, after he heard that he was sick, he then still remained in the same place for two days.
7. Then, after these things, he said to his disciples, "Let us go into Judea again."
8. The disciples said to him: "Rabbi, the Jews are even now seeking to stone you. And would you go there again?"
9. Jesus responded: "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10. But if he walks in the nighttime, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
11. He said these things, and after this, he said to them: "Lazarus our friend is sleeping. But I am going, so that I may awaken him from sleep."
12. And so his disciples said, "Lord, if he is sleeping, he shall be healthy."
13. But Jesus had spoken about his death. Yet they thought that he spoke about the repose of sleep.
14. Therefore, 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. And then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go, too, so that we may die with him."
17. And so Jesus went. And he found that he had already been in the tomb for four days.