John 11:13

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

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  • Matt 9:24 : 24 he said,“Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep!” And they began making fun of him.

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  • John 11:11-12
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    11After he said this, he added,“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

    12Then the disciples replied,“Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

  • John 11:14
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    14Then Jesus told them plainly,“Lazarus has died,

  • Mark 5:39
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    39When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!”

  • 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.

  • Matt 26:45
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    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.

  • Mark 14:40-41
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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.

  • John 11:4-5
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    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.)

  • John 11:43-44
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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.”

  • John 20:9
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    9(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

  • Luke 22:45-46
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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!”

  • John 11:17
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    17Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

  • Matt 9:24
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    24he said,“Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep!” And they began making fun of him.

  • Matt 28:13
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    13telling them,“You are to say,‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’

  • Mark 9:10
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    10They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.

  • John 11:37-39
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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.”

  • John 11:23
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    23Jesus replied,“Your brother will come back to life again.”

  • John 12:10
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    10So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

  • Matt 26:43
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    43He came again and found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open.

  • Luke 18:34
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    34But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

  • John 12:33
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    33(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

  • Mark 9:32
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    32But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.

  • 1 Thess 4:13-14
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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.

  • John 11:34-35
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    34He asked,“Where have you laid him?” They replied,“Lord, come and see.”

    35Jesus wept.

  • Mark 14:37
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    37Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,“Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?

  • John 11:25
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    25Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

  • Luke 9:45
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    45But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

  • John 2:21-22
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    21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

    22So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

  • Matt 17:13
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    13Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

  • John 8:27
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    27(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

  • John 16:18
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    18So they kept on repeating,“What is the meaning of what he says,‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”

  • Matt 14:12
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    12Then John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.

  • Mark 6:29
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    29When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.

  • Acts 13:28-30
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    28Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

    29When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

    30But God raised him from the dead,

  • John 18:32
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    32(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

  • Mark 16:3
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    3They had been asking each other,“Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

  • John 12:16-17
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    16(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

    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.