16 Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus)[a] said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, so that we may die with him.”

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17 So when he[b] arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb. 18 (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. John 11:16 “Didymus” means “the twin” in Greek
  2. John 11:17 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arrived”) which is understood as temporal
  3. John 11:18 A “stade” or “stadium” (plur. “stadia”) is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was just under two miles (3 km)