John 11:5-16

⁵Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

⁶So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, Jesus stayed two more days in the place where he was.

⁷Then after this, he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

⁸The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, right now the Jews are trying to stone you, and you are going back there again?”

⁹Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of light in a day? If someone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

¹⁰However, if he walks at night, he will stumble because the light is not in him.”

¹¹He said these things, and after these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may wake him out of sleep.”

¹²The disciples therefore said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he was speaking about the sleep of resting.

¹⁴Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.

¹⁵I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there so that you may believe. Let us go to him.”

¹⁶Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go so that we may die with Jesus.”