mission · 33 · Larnaca
John says plainly that the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus as well, because on account of him many were believing — which is the only motive any of the later traditions needs. The Eastern one puts him on a boat to Cyprus, has Barnabas and Paul make him bishop of Kition, and gives him thirty more years there; a strand of it adds that he never smiled again after what he had seen, except once. In 890 a tomb was opened at Larnaca bearing the inscription 'Lazarus, four days dead, friend of Christ', and Leo VI took the relics to Constantinople and built the church at Larnaca that still stands over the empty grave. The Western tradition sends him instead to Provence with Martha and Mary and makes him first bishop of Marseille, and the two accounts cannot both be true. This dataset marks the row traditional and names them both; the ninth-century inscription is ninth-century evidence of a ninth-century belief, which is not nothing and is not the first century.
To get out of Judaea, where the chief priests had decided to kill him too.
A see at Kition, a tomb opened at Larnaca in 890, and relics that went to Constantinople.