"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" answered Jesus. "If a man walks about through the day, he does not stumble, because he can have the light of the sun; but if he walks at night, he does stumble, because he has no light." [Illustration: With a loud voice, Jesus called: "Lazarus! Come out!" And out from the tomb came the man who had been dead.] Then he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I am going to wake him." "If he has fallen asleep, Master," said the disciples, "he will get well." They thought that Jesus was speaking of taking rest in sleep, which would show that a fever was passing away; but Jesus meant that Lazarus was in the sleep of death. Then he told them in plain words: "Lazarus is dead; and on your account I am glad that I was not there; for now you will learn to believe in me more fully. Come, now, let us go to him." [Illustration: Bethany, where Martha, Mary and Lazarus lived.] At this, Thomas, one of his twelve disciples, who was also called "Didymus," a word meaning "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples: "Let us go too; and if he dies, we will die with him." So from Bethabara they went again to Bethany, two miles from Jerusalem; a journey of about sixty miles. When Jesus came to Bethany, he found that Lazarus had been already four days in the tomb. In the house with Martha and Mary were a number of their friends who had come to show their sympathy with the sisters by weeping with them over their brother's death. Someone went into the room and told Martha that Jesus was coming, and was near the village. She rose up quietly and hastened to meet Jesus, while Mary sat still in the room. When Martha saw Jesus, she said to him mournfully: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. And even now, I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you." "Your brother shall rise to life again," said Jesus. "I know that he will rise again," said Martha, "when all the dead shall be raised up, at the last day." "I, myself," said Jesus, "am the one who raises the dead to life. He who believes in me shall live again, even if he dies; and he who lives believing in me shall never die. Do you believe that?" "Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was promised to come into the world." After saying this, Martha went again to the house, leaving Jesus still outside the village. She whispered to her sister Mary: "The Master is here, and he has asked for you." On hearing this, Mary rose in haste and went to the place where Jesus was. The friends who were with her, seeing her go out of the house, thought that she was going to the tomb, to weep there, and they followed her, to weep with her. It was the custom in that land, and still is the custom, for those who had lost a friend, to meet at his grave, day after day, and there to mourn for him.