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Rh when she heard, riseth quickely & commeth to him. For was not yet come into the towne: but he was yet in that place where Martha had met him. The Jewes therfore that were with her in the house and did comfort her, when they saw Marie that she rose quickly and went forth, folowed her, saying: That she goeth to the grave, to weepe there. Marie therfore when she was come where was, seeing him, fel at his feete, and saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. therfore when he saw her weeping, and the Jewes that were come with her, weeping, he groned in spirit, and troubled himself, and said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see. And wept. The Jewes therfore said: Behold how he loved him. But certaine of them said: Could not he that * opened the eyes of the blind man, make that this man should not die? therfore againe groning in himself, commeth to the grave: and it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it. saith: Take away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, now he stinketh, for he is now of foure dayes. saith to her: Did not I say to thee, that if thou beleeve, thou shalt see the glorie of God? They tooke therfore the stone away. And lifting his eyes upward, said: Father, I give thee thankes that thou hast heard me. And I did know that thou doest alwayes heare me, but for the people that standeth about, have I said it, that they may beleeve that thou hast sent me. When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. And forthwith he came forth that had been dead, bound feete and handes with winding bandes, and his face was tied with a napkin. said to them: Loose him, and let him goe.

Many therfore of the Jewes that were come to Marie and Martha, and had seen the things that did, beleeved in him.✠ And certaine of them went to the Pharisees, and told them the things that  did. The cheefe priests therfore and the pharisees gathered a Councel, and said: What doe we, for this man doeth many signes. If we let him alone so, al wil beleeve in him: and the Romanes wil come, and take away our place and Nation. But one of them named Caiphas, being the high Priest of that yeare, said to them: You know nothing, neither doe you consider: that it is expedient for us that one man die for the people, and the whole Nation perish not. And this he said not of himself: but ″ being the high Priest of that yeare, he prophecied that should die for the Nation. And not only for the Nation, but to gather into one the children of God that were dispersed. From that day therfore they devised to kil him. therfore walked no more openly among the Jewes, but he went into the countrie beside the desert unto a citie that is called Ephrem, and there he abode with his Disciples.✠

And the Pasche of the Jewes was at hand: and many of the countrie went up to Hierusalem before the Pasche to sanctifie themselves. They sought therfore; and they communed one with another, standing in the Temple: What Rh