When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. In that thing which God sometimes seems to linger in helping us, he does it both for his glory, and for our salvation, as the end result of the matter clearly proves. Jesus does not propose to them to return to Bethany, where he has friends, but to go back to Judaea, the land of hostility. Our friend Lazarus. But the change which his two days' delay had produced is here tenderly alluded to.
Sound sleep is a sign of health.
The disciples had misunderstood Christ's metaphor for death. He was not living in a dream world. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. Martha's faith made her believe that Jesus would have healed Lazarus, but even she did not expect him to call back from the grave one already buried. A Psalm of David.