And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. On one other occasion only did He this-on the Cross. His last utterance was a "loud cry" (). "He shall not cry," said the prophet; nor, in His ministry, did He cry. What a sublime contrast is this "loud cry" to the magical "whisperings" and "mutterings" of which we read in Isaiah 8:19. As Grotius well remarks, it is second only to the grandeur of that voice which shall raise all the dead (John 5:28; ).

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