9. Respondit Iesus: Nonne 9. Jesus answered: Are there duodecim sunt horae diei? Si not twelve hours of the day? quis ambulaverit in die, non If a man walk in the day, he offendit, quia lucem huius stumbleth not, because he mundi videt: seeth the light of this world. 9. The meaning is: just as a man walks safely and without stumbling during the period of daylight, which is a fixed period that cannot be shortened: so, during the time appointed for My mortal life by My Father, I am safe, and so are you. 10. Si autem ambulaverit in 10. But if he walk in the nocte offendit, quia lux non night he stumbleth, because est in eo. the light is not in him. 10. But after the time of My mortal life, then, indeed, _you_ may expect persecution and suffering; for when I am gone, you shall be as men walking after the sun’s light has gone down. 11. Haec, ait, et post haec 11. These things he said: and dixit eis: Lazarus amicus after that he said to them: noster dormit: sed vado ut a Lazarus our friend sleepeth; somno excitem eum. but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. 12. Dixerunt ergo discipuli 12. His disciples therefore eius: Domine, si dormit, said: Lord, if he sleep, he salvus erit. shall do well. 13. Dixerat autem Iesus de 13. But Jesus spoke of his morte ejus: illi autem death; and they thought that putaverunt quia de dormitione he spoke of the repose of somni diceret. sleep. 14. Tunc ergo Iesus dixit eis 14. Then therefore Jesus said manifeste: Lazarus mortuus to them plainly: Lazarus is est: dead; 11‐14. Jesus declares of His own Divine knowledge (there is no hint of a second message) that Lazarus sleeps. The disciples fail to understand, and He explains. 15. Et gaudeo propter vos, ut 15. And I am glad for your credatis, quoniam non eram sakes, that I was not there, ibi; sed eamus ad eum. that you may believe: but let us go to him. 15. Jesus rejoices that He was not with Lazarus, in which case His tender mercies would have led Him to prevent the death of Lazarus, and He rejoices for the sake of His disciples, inasmuch as a new and powerful motive to _strengthen_ their faith would now be afforded them in the miracle to be wrought. 16. Dixit ergo Thomas, qui 16. Thomas therefore, who is dicitur Didymus, ad called Didymus, said to his condiscipulos: Eamus et nos, fellow‐disciples: Let us also ut moriamur cum eo. go, that we may die with him. 16. See verse 8. *Thomas*, Aramaic תאמא, means a twin, the Greek equivalent being Didymus. The Greek equivalent is again mentioned after the name in xx. 24, xxi. 2. Possibly Thomas was commonly known in Asia Minor as Didymus.