John 11:5-16

⁵Jesus loved Martha and her younger sister Mary and Lazarus.

⁶But when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.

⁷But Jesus wanted to see Lazarus. So he said to us disciples, “Let's go back to Judea.”

⁸We said, “Teacher, just a short while ago the Jewish leaders SYN wanted to kill you by throwing stones at you. So ◄ we think that you should not go back there again!/ are you sure that you want to go back there again?► RHQ”

⁹To show us that nothing bad could happen to him until the time that God had chosen MET, Jesus replied, “There are RHQ twelve hours in the daytime, which is enough time to do what God wants us to do. People who walk in the daytime will not stumble over things they cannot see, because they see things by the light from the sun.

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.”