11. After Jesus said this, he told his disciples, “Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, and I’m going to Bethany to wake him.”
12. His disciples said to him, “Lord, if he’s sleeping, he’ll get well.”
13. Jesus meant that Lazarus was dead, but the disciples thought Jesus meant that Lazarus was only sleeping.
14. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
15. but I’m glad that I wasn’t there so that you can grow in faith. Let’s go to Lazarus.”
16. Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples, “Let’s go so that we, too, can die with Jesus.”
17. When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days.
18. (Bethany was near Jerusalem, not quite two miles away.)