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These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
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His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
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But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.
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Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
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And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you may believe. But, let us go to him.
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Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
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Jesus therefore came: and found that he had been four days already in the grave.
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(Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)
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And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
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Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home.
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Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.