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11:13. But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of
the repose of sleep.
11:14. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
11:15. And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you may
believe. But, let us go to him.
11:16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow
disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
11:17. Jesus therefore came: and found that he had been four days
already in the grave.
11:18. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)
11:19. And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort
them concerning their brother.
11:20. Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went
to meet him: but Mary sat at home.
11:21. Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died.
11:22. But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God
will give it thee.
11:23. Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.
11:24. Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the
resurrection at the last day.
11:25. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that
believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:
11:26. And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for
ever. Believest thou this?
11:27. She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art
Christ, the Son of the living God, who art come into this world.
11:28. And when she had said these things, she went and called her
sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come and calleth for thee.
11:29. She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to him.
11:30. For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in
that place where Martha had met him.
11:31. The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house and comforted
her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up speedily and went out,
followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there.
11:32. When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she
fell down at his feet and saith to him. Lord, if thou hadst been here,
my brother had not died.
11:33. Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were
come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and troubled himself,
11:34. And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come
and see.
11:35. And Jesus wept.
11:36. The Jews therefore said: Behold how he lo
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