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 blessed everyone by laying on of hands, he said, moved by the Spirit, " Here is one, brought hither through the faith in God, who put the priest of Artemis before the gate and afterward came in, because in the desire of his soul he regarded the care for his soul as the first, and thought thus within himself: It is better to care for the living than for the body of my relative. For I know that by turning to the Lord and saving my soul John will not refuse to raise the dead." And John rose from his place and went to that which the relative of the priest had occupied with these thoughts, and, taking him by the hand, he said, "Were these not thy thoughts, as thou earnest to me, child?" And he answered tremblingly, "Yea, lord!" and fell down at his feet. And John said, "Our Lord is Jesus Christ, who will prove His power on the body of thy relative by raising him."

47. And lifting up the young man, he took him by the hand, and said, "It is not a great task for a man who is lord over great mysteries to bother himself with small things. Or is it something great to drive away bodily diseases?" And still holding the young man by the hand, he said, " I say to thee, son, arise, and raise the dead without saying anything (else) than only this: The servant of God, John, says to thee, Arise!" And the young man went to his relative and said in the presence of much people these words only, and then returned with the living to John. When he saw him who had been raised, he said, "Thou that hast been raised art indeed