John 11:12

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Then the disciples replied,“Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

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  • 11After he said this, he added,“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

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    13(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

    14Then Jesus told them plainly,“Lazarus has died,

    15and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

    16So Thomas(called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples,“Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”

    17Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

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    43When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice,“Lazarus, come out!”

    44The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them,“Unwrap him and let him go.”

  • 39When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!”

  • John 11:3-7
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    3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,“Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”

    4When Jesus heard this, he said,“This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

    5(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

    6So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

    7Then after this, he said to his disciples,“Let us go to Judea again.”

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    45When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.

    46So he said to them,“Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!”

  • Luke 8:52-53
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    52Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said,“Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep!”

    53And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

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    34He asked,“Where have you laid him?” They replied,“Lord, come and see.”

    35Jesus wept.

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    23Jesus replied,“Your brother will come back to life again.”

    24Martha said,“I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.”

    25Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

  • 45Then he came to the disciples and said to them,“Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is approaching, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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    13The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

  • 21Martha said to Jesus,“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

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    24And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

    25So they came and woke him up saying,“Lord, save us! We are about to die!”

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    37But some of them said,“This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

    38Lazarus Raised from the Dead Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb.(Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

    39Jesus said,“Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied,“Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

  • 24he said,“Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep!” And they began making fun of him.

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    31Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

    32Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him,“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

  • 37Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,“Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?

  • 43He came again and found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open.

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    40When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to tell him.

    41He came a third time and said to them,“Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

  • 1The Death of Lazarus Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

  • 17So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

  • 13telling them,“You are to say,‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’

  • 1Jesus’ Anointing Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.

  • 14Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said,“Young man, I say to you, get up!”

  • 12Then John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.

  • 40Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter,“So, couldn’t you stay awake with me for one hour?

  • 38But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him,“Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”

  • 10So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

  • 36or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.

  • 12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.