ACT II

EPISODE 4: THE FOURTH WEEK IN LENT

JOHN

MARTHA

JESUS

MARY

SECOND CLERGYMAN

LAZARUS

(Non-speaking: PETER, THOMAS, JUDAS)

[MARTHA is alone. JOHN enters to her.]

JOHN: Martha!

MARTHA: John ... you’ve finally come?

JOHN: We didn’t know how bad things were.

MARTHA: But we sent word to Jesus days ago.

JOHN: I know. It’s very strange. He didn’t seem ...

MARTHA: He didn’t seem to care?

JOHN: No. Not that at all. I can’t explain it.

MARTHA: Where is he now?

JOHN: Just up the street.

MARTHA: Isn’t he...?

JOHN: A man stopped him ... with a sick boy.

MARTHA: What difference does it make? Lazarus is gone.

JOHN: Where’s your sister?

MARTHA: Mary’s in the church. The service is almost over. I couldn’t watch it to the end. Oh, John, why did it happen? Lazarus was a good brother ... always kind, always quick to make us la…