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So Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead,
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but for your sake I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe. Let us go to him."
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Thomas (called the Twin) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us all go along with the Teacher, so that we may die with him!"
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When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days before.
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Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
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and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother's death.
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When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed in the house.
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Martha said to Jesus, "If you had been here, Lord, my brother would not have died!
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But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask him for."
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"Your brother will rise to life," Jesus told her.
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"I know," she replied, "that he will rise to life on the last day."
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