Silanus
To reply to your questions in order, lady, I will tell you that he returned this morning, that I saw him with my eyes and that, at this moment, he is with my neighbour Simon the Leper. I am surprised, however, that the absolute frenzy which has shaken the country for two or three hours has not yet spread as far as here. It is true that your dwelling is separated by a high hill and some olive-woods from the spot where the sepulchre lies hidden.
Mary Magdalene
I have heard nothing, learned nothing.... In spite of my orders, no one has told me.... But, after all, what has happened?... Appius is as pale as a ghost.... What is it? What has he said, what has he done?...
Appius
He has done a thing which no man, no god, has done before him; a thing which I would not have believed if ten thousand witnesses had come to swear it in the name of the immortals, but in which I believe as firmly as I am bound to believe in my own existence, having seen it with my eyes, as I see you now, and almost touched it with my hands, as I touch this vase. He said, “Rise, come forth and walk.” And the dead man rose, came forth and began to walk among us!
Verus
It was apparently a dead man whose health left nothing to be wished for?...
Silanus
No, I am convinced that it was really a dead man.