He knows only with his mind, not yet with his heart.

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

… I know that he will rise again in the resurrection (of the dead), on the last day.

Here is the threshold between time and eternity, not crossed by it, uncrossed for us. She stopped at it and cannot move. But the Lord moves it with miraculous power.

I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me, though he die, shall live.

And everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?

She said to Him, "So." Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, coming into the world. (11, 21–27.)

This is the power that has not yet endured, but will now carry it beyond the threshold – faith in Him Himself, as a miracle of miracles. He believes, but still cries.

When Jesus saw her weeping,

Martha-Mary – all the creature doomed to death – weeping,

He himself was grieved in spirit, and was angry;

And he said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, "Rabbi! Go and see.

Jesus began to weep.

Here is the boundary of two worlds: eternally feminine tears – eternally masculine anger. He cries like everyone else; Like no one else, he is indignant. Human tears – to the border, and beyond it – "indignation", "divine anger". In this feeling, all people are with Him – "sons of God", because death for all of them is unnatural, outrageous.

… And again indignant, he enters the tomb,

and said:

Roll away the stone.

This is already said there, beyond the threshold, in eternity. But still here is Martha-Mary, the mortal horror of all mortal creation:

God! he is already stinking, for he has been in the tomb for four days.

There has never been, and never will be, a more terrible word about death than this, spoken in the face of Life itself. Here, in all its irresistible, insolent force, is the law of mechanical causality, of logical identity: a + b + c = a + b + c; "If you come out of the dust, you will depart into the dust." It seems that you see how Power goes to Force, Enemy to Enemy, Life to Death; it seems that you hear how through the mouth of all creation Death says to Life itself: "His three days have passed, and this is what has happened to him; Thy three days shall pass, and what shall become of thee?"

Jesus said to her,