John 11:10-22

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.”