running at this point. What the neatly folded and separately lying soudarion indicates is that whereas Lazarus was completely passive in his coming back to life, entirely reliant upon the command of Jesus and needing others to remove the facial cloth and so restore him to full human and social life, Jesus has actively raised himself. The neatly folded, separately placed facial cloth would appear to be the culminating indication of this totally self-possessed, majestic act of Jesus—an action aptly