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 to the sepulchre. Now it was a cave, and a stone was laid over it.

Jesus saith: "Take away the stone."

Martha saith to Him: "Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days."

Jesus saith to her: "Did not I say to thee that if thou believe thou shalt see the glory of God?"

They took, therefore, the stone away.

And Jesus, lifting up His eyes, said: "Father, I give Thee thanks that Thou hast heard Me. And I know that Thou heareth Me always, but because of the people that stand about have I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me."

When He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice: "Lazarus, come forth."

And, presently, he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding-bands, and his face was bound about with a napkin.

Jesus said to them: "Loose him and let him go."

Many, therefore, of the Jews who were come to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in Him.

We have had the account of this wondrous scene in the words of St. John who saw it. He does not go on to tell us what followed—of the trembling hands that unloosed the graveclothes, of the awe and the thankfulness with which the sisters and their brother fell at the feet of Jesus. But he says that some who witnessed that stupendous miracle went to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done, and that the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council of the Sanhedrists and said:

"What do we, for this Man doth many miracles?