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to raise. Lazarus, come forth; I freed you from the tomb, you escort me to the cross. Lazarus, come forth, and from now on, as a friend, dine with me. For even if the children of the Jews wish to kill you, nevertheless I dine with you. I do not give you up; for I came not to betray, but to lay down my life for my friends. But that the children of the Jews wanted to kill Lazarus, they who are always bloodthirsty, you just heard the evangelist saying: But the chief priests and the Pharisees conspired that they might kill Lazarus also, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus. O the madness of the chief priests, or rather, the unholy priests. For whom Tartarus, shuddering, gave back, these men wished to encompass with death again. Why, O Jews, do you attempt to kill Lazarus? For does he also break the Sabbath? He proclaims the resurrection; but why do you also wish to kill him? For if you kill him, Christ will raise him again. To him belongs glory unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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ἐγεῖραι. Λάζαρε, δεῦρο ἔξω· ἐγώ σε τοῦ τάφου ἠλευθέρωσα, σύ με ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ πρόπεμψον. Λάζαρε, δεῦρο ἔξω, καὶ λοιπὸν ὡς φίλος συνδείπνει μοι. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ βούλονται Ἰουδαίων παῖδες ἀνελεῖν σε, ἀλλ' ὅμως ἐγὼ συνδειπνῶ σοι. Οὐκ ἐκδίδωμί σε· ἦλθον γὰρ οὐχὶ προδοῦναι, ἀλλ' ὑπὲρ φίλων τὴν ψυχήν μου θεῖναι. Ὅτι δὲ ἐβούλοντο Ἰουδαίων παῖδες ἀνελεῖν τὸν Λάζαρον, οἱ ἀεὶ αἱμοχαρεῖς ὄντες, ἤκουες ἀρτίως τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ λέγοντος· Οἱ δὲ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ φαρισαῖοι ἐβουλεύσαντο ὅπως καὶ τὸν Λάζαρον ἀποκτείνωσιν, ὅτι πολλοὶ δι' αὐτὸν ὑπῆγον τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ ἐπίστευον εἰς τὸν Ἰησοῦν. Ὢ τῆς τῶν ἀρχιερέων, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀνιερέων μανίας. Ὃν γὰρ ὁ τάρταρος φρίξας ἀπέδωκεν, οὗτοι θανάτῳ πάλιν περιβαλεῖν ἠβούλοντο. ∆ιὰ τί, ὦ Ἰουδαῖοι, Λάζαρον ἀνελεῖν ἐπιχειρεῖτε; Μὴ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς τὸ σάββατον λύει; Τὴν ἀνάστασιν μηνύει· τί δὲ αὐτὸν καὶ βούλεσθε ἀνελεῖν; Ἐὰν γὰρ ὑμεῖς αὐτὸν ἀνέλητε, πάλιν Χριστὸς αὐτὸν ἀναστήσει. Αὐτῷ πρέπει ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.