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By Andrea Tornielli

American Jesuit Father James Martin is the author of Come Forth: The Raising of Lazarus and the Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle, a book dedicated to the figure of Lazarus, brother of Martha and Mary and friend of Jesus, who often stayed in the home of the three siblings in Bethany.

Jesus’ raising of Lazarus is the story of a great miracle. We spoke with Fr Martin in the studios of Vatican Radio.

Interview with Fr James Martin, SJ

Andrea Tornielli: Where did your interest in Lazarus come from?

Fr.

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James Martin: Well, it starts actually with an Italian director, Franco Zeffirelli. When I was a young man, I saw “Jesus of Nazareth,” his famous movie. And really, the most dramatic scene in that whole picture is not the raising of Jesus, which you don’t see on camera, but the raising of Lazarus.

And you have a shot of a man coming out of a tomb, and the orchestral music plays and everyone falls to th