011:011 He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him." 011:012 "Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover." 011:013 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep. 011:014 So then He told them plainly, 011:015 "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." 011:016 "Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him." 011:017 On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb. 011:018 Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles; 011:019 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. 011:020 Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house. 011:021 So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died. 011:022 And even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you." 011:023 "Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus. 011:024 "I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection, on the last day." 011:025 "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live; 011:026 and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never, never die. Do you believe this?" 011:027 "Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world." 011:028 After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you." 011:029 So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him. 011:030 Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him. 011:031 So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there. 011:032 Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 011:033 Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit, 011:034 though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply. 011:035 Jesus wept. 011:036 "See how dear he held him," said the Jews.