New Revised Standard Version
After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.”

Contemporary English Version
Then he told them, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep, and I am going there to wake him up."

New American Bible
He said this, and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

he saith.

John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

John 15:13-15 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. . . .

Exodus 33:11 And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.

2 Chronicles 20:7 Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

Isaiah 41:8 But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:

James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.

sleepeth.

John 11:13 But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.

Deuteronomy 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

Matthew 9:24 He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

Mark 5:39 And going in, he saith to them Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.

Acts 7:60 And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

1 Corinthians 15:18,51 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:14,15 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:10 Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him.

awake.

John 11:43,44 When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. . . .

John 5:25-29 Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. . . .

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.