John 11:7-16

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

8The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”

9Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

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.”