27. Ait illi: Utique Domine, 27. She saith to him: Yea,
ego credidi quia tu es Lord, I have believed that
Christus Filius Dei vivi, qui thou art Christ the Son of the
in hunc mundum venisti. living God, who art come into
this world.
28. Et cum haec dixisset, 28. And when she had said
abiit, et vocavit Mariam, these things, she went, and
sororem suam silentio, dicens: called her sister Mary
Magister ad est, et vocat te. secretly, saying: The master
is come and calleth for thee.
29. Illa ut audivit, surgit 29. She, as soon as she heard
cito, et venit ad eum. _this_, riseth quickly and
cometh to him.
30. Nondum enim venerat Iesus 30. For Jesus was not yet come
in castellum: sed erat adhuc into the town; but he was
in illo loco ubi occurrerat ei still in that place where
Martha. Martha had met him.
31. Iudaei ergo qui erant cum 31. The Jews therefore who
ea in domo, et consolabantur were with her in the house and
eam, cum vidissent Mariam quia comforted her, when they saw
cito surrexit et exiit, secuti Mary that she rose up speedily
sunt eam dicentes: Quia vadit and went out, followed her,
ad monumentum ut ploret ibi. saying: She goeth to the
grave, to weep there.
32. Maria ergo, cum venisset 32. When Mary therefore was
ubi erat Iesus, videns eum, come where Jesus was, seeing
cecidit ad pedes eius, et him, she fell down at his
dicit ei: Domine, si fuisses feet, and saith to him: Lord,
hic, non esset mortuus frater if thou hadst been here, my
meus. brother had not died.
27‐32. To Christ’s question, if she believed what He had said of Himself
as the resurrection and the life, she replies that she believes(77) Him to
be the Messias, the Son of God, and so she implicitly believes in
everything He teaches, even though, as was probably the case now, she did
not quite understand. Then she goes home, and secretly calls her sister
Mary, who hurries out to meet Jesus. The Jews, thinking Mary went out to
weep at the tomb of Lazarus, follow her, and she and they come to the
place where Jesus still remained outside the village. Mary repeats almost
the exact words which Martha had used on meeting Jesus.
33. Iesus ergo, ut vidit eam 33. Jesus therefore, when he
plorantem, et Iudaeos qui saw her weeping, and the Jews
venerant cum ea, plorantes, that were come with her,
infremuit spiritu, et turbavit weeping, groaned in the
seipsum. spirit, and troubled himself.
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