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226 XI.

ND there was a certaine sicke man, Lazarus of Bethania, of the town of Marie and Martha her sister. (And Marie was she * that anointed our Lord with ointement, and wiped his feete with her haire: whose brother Lazarus was sicke.) His sisters therfore sent to him saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest, is sicke. And hearing, said to them: This sicknesse is not to death, but for the glorie of God: that the Sonne of God may be glorified by it. And loved Martha, and her sister Marie, and Lazarus. As he heard therfore that he was sicke, then he taried in the same place two dayes: then after this he saith to his Disciples: Let us goe into Jewrie againe. The Disciples say to him: Rabbi, now the Jewes sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither againe? answered: Are there not twelve houres of the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not: because he seeth the light of this world: but if he walke in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him. These things he said; and after this he saith to them: Lazarus our freind sleepeth; but I goe that I may raise him from sleep. His Disciples therfore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shal be safe. But spake of his death; and they thought that he spake * of the sleeping of sleep. Then therfore said to them plainely: Lazarus is dead; and I am glad for your sake, that you may beleeve, because I was not there: but let us goe to him. Thomas therfore, who is called Didymus, said to his Condisciples: Let us also goe, to die with him.

therfore came, and found him now having been foure dayes in the grave. (And Bethania was nigh to Hierusalem about fifteene furlonges.) And many of the Jewes were come to Martha and Marie, to comfort them concerning their brother. Martha therfore when she heard that was come, went to meet him; but Marie sat at home. Martha therfore said to : Lord if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But now also I know that what things soever thou shalt aske of God, God wil give thee. saith to her: Thy brother shal rise againe. Martha saith to him: I know that he shal rise againe in the resurrection, in the last day. said to her: I am the resurrection and the life; he that beleeveth in me, although he be dead, shal live. And every one that liveth, and beleeveth in me, shal not die for ever. Beleevest thou this? She saith to him: Yea Lord, I have beleeved that thou art the Sonne of God that art come into this world.✠

And when she had said these things, she went, and called Marie her sister secretly, saying: The Maister is come, and calleth thee. She, Rh