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"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
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But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."
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He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."
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"Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover."
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Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.
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So then He told them plainly,
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"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him."
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"Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."
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On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.
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Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles;
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and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.