11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.



Ver. 11. Lazarus sleepeth] The saints are said to die in Christ, to sleep in Jesus, Rev_14:13; 1Th_4:14. The Greeks call their churchyards dormitories, sleeping places ( êïéìçôçñéá ). The Germans call them God’s Acre, because their bodies are sown there to be raised again. The Hebrews Bethchajim, the house of the living.