John 11:7–16

⁷then after this, he saith to the disciples, ‘We may go to Judea again;’ ⁸the disciples say to him, ‘Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!’ ⁹Jesus answered, ‘Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see; ¹⁰and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.’ ¹¹These things he said, and after this he saith to them, ‘Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;’ ¹²therefore said his disciples, ‘Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;’ ¹³but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh. ¹⁴Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, ‘Lazarus hath died; ¹⁵and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;’ ¹⁶therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, ‘We may go—we also, that we may die with him,’