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The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'
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and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'
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Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
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Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'
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Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'
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They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;
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and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'
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And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'
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and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'
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Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;
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but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;