John 11:7–16

⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” ⁸The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?” ⁹Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. ¹¹He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him.” ¹²So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.” ¹³(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about real sleep.^b) ¹⁴So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died, ¹⁵and I am glad for your sake^c that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” ¹⁶Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus)^d said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, so that we may die with him.”