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again.’ Martha answered, 6 I know that he will rise at the resurrection at 
the last day.’ Jesus said to her, f I am the resurrection and the life. He 
that believeth in me, though he were dead, he shall live; and the person 
who liveth, shall never die. Believest thou this?’ She answered, ‘ Yes, 
Master, I believe that thou art the Messiah, the Son of God, he who was to 
come into the world.’ Having said this, she ran back, and told her sister 
Mary. The Jews observing them both running out, followed, saying, ‘ She 
is going to the tomb, to weep there.’ Mary, when she arrived to where 
Jesus was, threw herself at his feet, saying, ‘ Hadst thou been here, Master, 
our brother had not died.’ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews 
weeping who came with her, Jesus was also troubled, and sighed, and he 
inquired where he was laid. They answered, ‘ Come with us, and see the 
tomb.’ Jesus wept. The Jews observed this, and said amongst themselves, 
* See how he loves him! Could not he who gave sight to the blind man, 
have prevented his friend’s death?’ They came to the tomb; it was a cave, 
the entrance of which was shut with a stone. Jesus said, ‘ Remove the 
stone.’ Martha, the sister of the deceased, answered, ‘ Sir, by this time the 
body is offensive, for this is the fourth day since his burial.’ Jesus replied, 
* Said I not unto thee, if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?’ 
Then they removed the stone. And Jesus, lifting up his eyes, said, 6 Father, 
I thank thee, that thou hast heard me. As for me, 1 know that thou hearest 
me always; but I speak for the people’s sake who surround me, that they 
may believe that thou hast sent me.’ After these words, raising his voice, 
he cried, ‘ Lazarus, come forth.’ And he who had been dead came forth, 
bound hand and foot with fillets, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. 
Jesus said to them, ‘ Unbind him, and let him free.’ All were filled with 
astonishment.” 
At the next festival of the passover, when the scheme of Caiaphas was 
put in execution, and when it was deemed expedient by the council that he 
should die, to save the nation from the jealousy of the Romans; as a proof 
of their steady loyalty to Rome he was apprehended, was tried as an enemy 
to her government, was at last condemned upon false evidence, and sus¬ 
pended on a cross until they were fully satisfied of his death. Even after 
his death, the spear of a soldier was thrust into his side; and the water that 
gushed out with the blood is a proof to those who are acquainted with the 
structure and economy of living bodies, that he must have been some time 
dead. 
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