who were born of God and not of natural blood nor of physical or human impulse.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

though Jesus meant it of Lazarus's death: but they understood it of the natural rest in sleep.