²⁴ he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead^(A) but asleep.”^(B) But they laughed at him.

³⁹ He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.”^(A)

⁵² Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning^(A) for her. “Stop wailing,” Jesus said. “She is not dead but asleep.”^(B)

¹¹ After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend^(A) Lazarus has fallen asleep;^(B) but I am going there to wake him up.”

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany,^(A) the village of Mary and her sister Martha.^(B)