Mary Magdalene
I knew that he was to return to-day; but why did you not send word to me at once, as you promised?...
Silanus
It seemed to me that the spectacle at hand was not one of those on which the eyes of a woman in the hour of her beauty love to rest. Moreover, there was cause to fear lest your arrival among the excited crowd should cause a repetition of the violence of the other day. For an enormous crowd, silent, but quivering like a swarm of bees, escorted the Nazarene, in front of whom walked the two sisters of Lazarus. We, Appius and I, climbed on to a block of stone hidden behind some bushes, whence we could see and hear everything without arousing the suspicion of the Jews. They showed the grave to the Nazarene, who stopped and lowered his head.
Appius
He wept. They whispered in the crowd, “Behold how he loved him!” But nobody dared approach. They formed a circle at a distance, as though round a dread being....
Silanus
“Take ye away the stone,” said the Nazarene; and two men stepped toward the grave.
Appius
You forget that, at that moment, one of the sisters of the dead man, alarmed and all in tears, seized the Nazarene by the arm and said, “Lord, by this time he stinketh; for he hath been dead four days.” The Nazarene answered—I have not forgotten a single one of his words—“Said I not unto thee that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Take ye away the stone.”