allowed him to die. >> it must have been painful to delay and wait for god's answer in prayer that this was the time to do this. >> our friend lazarus has fallen asleep, but i am going there to awaken him. >> lord, if he's fallen asleep, he'll be all right. >> lazarus is dead. >> jesus has a real sense of destiny in john's gospel. there's no way that he is going to allow even the most important requests from his close friends to interfere with the destiny, with that path that god set before him. >> finally, jesus heads to bethany and the home of lazarus, mary and martha.