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"Teacher," the disciples answered, "just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone you; and are you planning to go back?"
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Jesus said, "A day has twelve hours, doesn't it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world.
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But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light."
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Jesus said this and then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I will go and wake him up."
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The disciples answered, "If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well."
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Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought he meant natural sleep.
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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,