EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 83
So the students said, "Sir, if he has fallen asleep, he will be cured."^38
Yeshua had spoken about his death, but they thought he was talking about
restful sleep.
Then Yeshua told them plainly,
"Eleazar died, and I am happy for you
that I was not there so that you may believe.
But now let us go to him."
Toma,^39 who was called the twin, said to his fellow students, "Let us also go
so that we may die with him."When Yeshua arrived, he found that Eleazar had already been four days in the
tomb. Now, Bethany was near Yerushalayim, about two miles away, and many
of the Jews had come to console Martha and Miryam for their brother. When
Martha heard that Yeshua was coming, she went out to meet him, but Miryam
sat in her house. Then Martha said to Yeshua, "Sir, if you had been here my
brother would not have died. Even now I know that whatever you ask god, god
gives you."
Yeshua said to her,
"Your brother will rise again."
Martha said to him,
"I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day."
Yeshua said to her,
"I am the resurrection and the life.
Those who believe in me even if they die
will live.
And everyone who lives and believes in me
will not die into eternity.
Do you believe this?"
She said to him,
"Yes, lord. I believe that you are the messiah,
the son of god, who is coming into this world."After she said this, she left and called her sister Miryam, telling her secretly,
"The teacher is here and calls for you."
- Or "he will be saved" or "preserved." Both cure and salvation are implicit.
- Thomas.