My Father does (creates) until now, and I do (create). For as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to whom He will...

Verily, verily, I say to you, the time is coming, and it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and when they have heard, they will live...

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave the Son to have life in Himself...

Do not be amazed at this, for the time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear the voice of the Son of God. And they will come out... (John 5:7, 21, 25-28.)

After this quiet word in time, the thunderous word in eternity:

Lazarus, depart!

And the dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in grave clothes, and his face was bound with a cloth. (John 11:43-44.)

If Mary had not fallen at the feet of the Lord, incinerated by this incredible vision, she would not have seen the risen Lord, and all creation with her.

Here History comes into contact with the Mystery, time with eternity. In this sense, Lazarus was truly resurrected, and one could say: if it were not for the resurrection of Lazarus, there would be no Christianity, there would be no Christ.

XXXV

Thou hast revealed to us many mysteries, and thou hast chosen me out of all thy disciples, and hast spoken to me three words, whereby I burn, but I cannot speak to others;

recalls Thomas the Infidel. [608] It is very probable that these three words revealed to him who said:

if I don't see ... I will not believe (John 20:25).

also apply to the miracle of the Resurrection. If they are different for each time, then for ours, in the face of the invasion of "anthropoids", "non-humans", slaves-enslavers threatening people, these three words would flash in heaven with the sign of the cross of Labarum: By this you will conquer, – by the sign of the Son of man, these three words: