John 11:11-17

11After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

12Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

14Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

15and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

16So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”

17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.