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6:16-21 When evening came his disciples
went down to the sea. They
set out on a boat heading to Capernaum. Now darkness
had come and Jesus had not yet met up with them. There was a gale blowing
and the sea was very rough.
Having rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs they saw Jesus
walking on the sea and coming towards the boat. They were afraid. But he (Jesus) said to them
"It is myself". Do
not be afraid. They
wanted therefore to take him on board the boat and immediately the boat arrived at the place to which they
were going.
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11:7-37 Then after this (his
delay of two days) he says to the disciples. "Let us go again into Judea.
The disciples say to him "Rabbi the Jews were looking to
stone you (after Jesus said 'I am in the Father' etc) and yet are you
going back there again?"
Jesus answered "Are there not twelve hours (of daylight) in the day? If anyone walks in the
day(light) he does not stumble because he sees the light of this
world. But if someone walks
in the night he does stumble because the light is not in him." After he said these things to them
he said "Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep but I am going (back
into Judea) so that I can wake him
up. "The disciples
therefore said to him "If he has fallen asleep he will get
better." Now Jesus was
actually talking about his death but the men hearing thought he was
talking about sleep in terms of slumber. Jesus therefore told them plainly
"Lazarus has died. (Yet)
I am happy for your sake because my not being there will help you to
believe. Let us go to
him." Thomas
called "the Twin" said to his fellow-disciples "Let us
also go so that we may die with him."
And so it was that when Jesus came he found that (Lazarus) had
already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany
is near Jerusalem,
about fifteen furlongs away.
Many of the Jews (from there) had come to visit Martha and Mary so
they might console them about their brother.
When Martha heard that Jesus
was coming she went to meet him.
But Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus "Lord if
you were here my brother would not have died. Now I know that whatever you ask
for, God will give it to you."
Jesus said to her "Your
brother will rise again".
She says to him "I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection in the last day."
Jesus said to her "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even
if he should die, will live.
Any person who lives and believes in me will not die (and have to
wait for ) the end of time.
Do you believe this?"
She says to him "Yes Lord. I have believed that you are the
Christ the son of God who has come into the world." And on saying this she went away
and called Mary her sister aside privately saying "The Teacher is
here and is asking for you."
When (Mary) heard this she rose quickly and came to him. Now as yet Jesus had not come into
the village. He was still in
the place where Martha had met him.
Therefore the Jews who were with her (Mary) in the house and
consoling her, on seeing that Mary quickly got up and went out, followed
her. They were thinking
"She is going to the tomb so that she can weep there." Mary came to where Jesus was and
on seeing him she fell at his feet saying to him. "Lord if you had
been here my brother would not have died." Jesus, when he saw her weeping and
also saw that the Jews coming with her were weeping groaned within his
spirit and was himself upset.
He said "Where have you put him?" They said to him "Lord come
and see." (By this time) Jesus was weeping. The Jews therefore said "See
how he loved him." But
some of them said "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man
have prevented this man from dying?"
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