text: 3 !3 Well, you know what happens to a body that hasn t been embalmed. Four days is more than long enough for decomposition to begin. And so the man s sister says to Jesus, But it s going to smell bad - really bad. But Jesus doesn t seem to listen, and instead begins to pray. and then suddenly shouts, Lazarus, come out! And from the tomb lurches Lazarus still wrapped in the cloths that had shrouded his body. I m guessing that whoever chose this reading for All Saints was thinking that this would remind us of Jesus power over death... not of zombies or mummies - though if you re stuck for a costume for our All Saints celebration tonight, St Lazarus would be a good one! And what the reading set for today doesn t tell us is that Lazarus was no zombie Lazarus was no mummy. After they unwrapped him, he went on to live a normal life. Just a few verses later he s hosting dinner for Jesus the next time Jesus comes to town. And as far as we know,