Elisha arrived at the house. The boy was dead. He was lying on Elisha’s bed.
Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. He got worse and worse. Finally he stopped breathing.
She went up to the room on the roof. There she laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
Gehazi went on ahead. He laid Elisha’s walking stick on the boy’s face. But there wasn’t any sound. The boy didn’t move at all. So Gehazi went back to Elisha. He told him, “The boy hasn’t awakened.”
Elisha went into the room. He shut the door. He was alone with the boy. He prayed to the Lord.
When Jesus arrived, he found out that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.