Conclusion Of The Resurrection Of Hope

"Yes, Lord," she answers. "I have believed that you are the Christ the Son of God, the One coming into the world." Martha then hurries back to summon her sister, telling her privately: "The Teacher is present and is calling you." Immediately Mary leaves the house. When others see her go, they follow, assuming that she is going to the memorial tomb.

Coming to see Jesus, Mary falls at his feet weeping. "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died," she says. Jesus is deeply moved when he sees that Mary and the crowds of people following her are weeping. "Where have you laid him?" He asks. Lord, come and see," they answer. Jesus too gives way to tears, causing the Jews to say: "See what affection he used to have for him!"

Some recall that Jesus, at the time of the Festival of Tabernacles a few months before, had healed a young man born blind, and they ask: "Was not this man that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?" John 5:21; 6:40; 9:1-7; 11:17-37.