10It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”
11After he said that, he told us, “Our friend Lazarus has gone to sleep. But I will go there so that I can wake him up.”
12So we said to him, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get well. So you do not need to risk your life by going there.”
13Jesus was speaking figuratively about Lazarus' death, but we thought that he was talking about really being asleep.
14So then he told us plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
15But for your sake I am glad that I was not there when he died, because I want you to believe more firmly that I ◄ am the Messiah/came from God►. So now, instead of staying here, let's go to him.”
16Then Thomas, who was {whom they} called ❛The Twin❜, said to the rest of us disciples, “Let's all go, so that we may die with Jesus when his enemies kill him.”
17When we arrived close to Bethany, someone told Jesus that Lazarus had died and had been buried and his body had been in the tomb for four days.
18Bethany is less than ◄two miles/three kilometers► from Jerusalem.
19Many Jews had come from Jerusalem to console Martha and Mary over the death of their younger brother.
20When Martha heard someone say that Jesus was coming, she went along the road to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.
21When Martha got to where Jesus was, she said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died because you would have healed him!
22But I know that even now God will do for you whatever you ask concerning my brother.”