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The disciples say to him, Rabbi, [even but] now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?
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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;
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but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
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These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
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The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well.
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But Jesus spoke of his death, but *they* thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.
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Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.
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And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.
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Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.
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Jesus therefore [on] arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb.
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Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,