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Urantia Book Search The Urantia Book  168:0.1 IT WAS shortly
after noon when Martha started out to meet Jesus as he came over
the brow of the hill near Bethany. Her brother, Lazarus, had
been dead four days and had been laid away in their private tomb
at the far end of the garden late on Sunday afternoon. The stone
at the entrance of the tomb had been rolled in place on the
morning of this day, Thursday.  168:0.2 When Martha and Mary
sent word to Jesus concerning Lazarus’s illness, they were
confident the Master would do something about it. They knew that
their brother was desperately sick, and though they hardly dared
hope that Jesus would leave his work of teaching and preaching
to come to their assistance, they had such confidence in his
power to heal disease that they thought he would just speak the
curative words, and Lazarus would immediately be made whole. And
when Lazarus died a