John 11:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.”

Cross References

2 Kings 4:31

Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. He came back to meet him and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

2 Chronicles 20:7

Did you not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham?

Exodus 33:11

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then he would return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the tent.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Matthew 27:52

The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

Matthew 9:24

he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him.

Mark 5:39

When he had entered, he said to them, “Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.”

John 11:10

But those who walk at night stumble because the light is not in them.”

John 11:12

The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.”

John 11:13

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep.

John 11:3

So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

John 3:29

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. For this reason my joy has been fulfilled.

Acts 7:60

Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died.

1 Corinthians 15:18

Then those also who have died in Christ have perished.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

1 Corinthians 15:51

Look, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed,

Ephesians 5:14

for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you will lie down with your ancestors. Then this people will begin to prostitute themselves to the foreign gods in their midst, the gods of the land into which they are going; they will forsake me, breaking my covenant that I have made with them.

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him.

James 2:23

Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.