How were Mary and Martha to understand
Jesus' message that the sickness wasn't unto
death? There must have been an awful time
of temptation to fear that somehow they must
have been deceived.

Thoughts like that must have entered their
minds as Lazarus grew worse. Now Lazarus
was dead and they didn't know how to accept
the words of Jesus to the fact that he did die.

At that time how little they realized the great joy
that would soon come to them.