Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 'In the language of heaven,' says Bengel beautifully, 'sleep is the death of the saints; but this language the disciples here understood not. Incomparable is the generosity of the divine manner of discoursing; but such is the slowness of men's apprehension that Scripture often has to descend to the more miserable style of human discourse. (See Matthew 16:11, etc.)