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then, after this, he said to the talmidim, "Let's go back to Y'hudah."
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The talmidim replied, "Rabbi! Just a short while ago the Judeans were out to stone you -- and you want to go back there?"
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Yeshua answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a person walks during daylight, he doesn't stumble; because he sees the light of this world.
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But if a person walks at night, he does stumble; because he has no light with him."
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Yeshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, "Our friend El`azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up."
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The talmidim said to him, "Lord, if he has gone to sleep, he will get better."
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Now Yeshua had used the phrase to speak about El`azar's death, but they thought he had been talking literally about sleep.
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So Yeshua told them in plain language, "El`azar has died.
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And for your sakes, I am glad that I wasn't there, so that you may come to trust. But let's go to him."
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Then T'oma (the name means "twin") said to his fellow talmidim, "Yes, we should go, so that we can die with him!"
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On arrival, Yeshua found that El`azar had already been in the tomb for four days.