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Tomb

The carpenter is recorded as calling a person back from the dead. Lazarus, a close friend of Jesus has died. When Lazarus was sick, Jesus was called when by Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus, to come and heal him. He choose not to leave where he was at the time. This choice meant Lazarus died. Jesus then chooses to go and visit Mary and Martha. He gathered them at the tomb of Lazarus, instructed them to roll the stone away, and then utters the following John 11:41ff "So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”  When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go" Lazarus come out! T