gospel · 30 · Bethany
Lazarus had been four days in the tomb when Jesus called him out by name and he came out bound hand and foot. John makes it the last and greatest of the signs and the immediate cause of the decision to kill him — and the Byzantine calendar keeps Lazarus Saturday on the eve of Palm Sunday, the two days read as one movement.
Lazarus of Bethany is a figure of the New Testament whose life is restored by Jesus four days after his death, as told in the Gospel of John. The resurrection is considered one of the miracles of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Lazarus is venerated as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead. The Eastern Orthodox and Catholic traditions offer varying accounts of the later events of his life.
The sign that decided the council against him.