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therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'
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but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.
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Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;
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and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'
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therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'
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Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.
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And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,
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and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
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Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.
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Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
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but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'