These things said he: and after that he said unto them,
Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Lazarus . sleepeth. It is strange that the disciples could imagine that Christ spoke of an ordinary sleep, and that he would go two or three days' journey to awake him. Nothing but the fear and concern they were under, could make them think so. (Witham)