His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover.
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… Chapter 11, verses 1 through 45. Now, a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with the perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair. It was her brother, Lazarus, who was ill. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, saying, Master, the one you love is ill. When Jesus heard this, he said, Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. Then after this, he said to his disciples, Let us go back to Judea. The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of the world. But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. …
… After he said this, he went up to, to tell them our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm going there to wake him up. His disciples replied, Lord, if he sleeps, he'll get better. Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. So then he told them plainly, yo man, you're not getting it. Lazarus is dead. I like that sometimes God will nudge you. Sometimes God will prompt you. Other times God will speak to you plainly. No, it's time for you to start doing this. It's time for you to stop doing that. It's time for you to break, break up with that dude. He's broker than a joker. That's a word for somebody today. Hallelujah. I like that. Sometimes God will speak to you plainly because he wants you to understand exactly what he's meaning in your life. It says this in verse 15. And for your sake, I am glad I was not there so that you may believe, but let us go to him. Then Thomas, also known as Didymus said to the rest of the disciples, Let us also go that we may die with him. …
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. Therefore the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick. Now when Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it. Now, Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when He heard that He was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. And then after this, He said to the disciples, let us go to Judea again. The disciples said to Him, Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone you, and are you going there again? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. …
… of John, where it begins telling us that Lazarus had become ill, and so his sister sent a message to Jesus, imploring Him to come and help, saying, Behold, the one you love is sick. And when Jesus heard that, His response was this, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it. Now that, of course, would be a very encouraging response when Jesus declared that the illness of Lazarus was not unto death, but the purpose of it was to glorify God. Now we're told in verse 5 that Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, so that when He heard that He was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was, which is a jolting statement here in the text, because you would think that when Jesus gets this request in the news of the severity of the illness of Lazarus, and right after John tells us how much he loved Lazarus, you would have expected, as the sisters of Lazarus certainly did, that Jesus would come immediately. But instead, He stayed two more days where He was. And then after that He said to the disciples, let us go to Judea again. And the disciples He said, Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone you, and are you going to go back there? …