He was so entirely imbued with the happiness of life in the Kingdom of Heaven, and his prayers were full of gratitude that death could not destroy such a life, since it was immortal, and would be carried into eternity with the immortal soul.
Two of the inmates of his house were at one with him in this.
Magdalen, his wife's sister, the fallen woman of Magdala, lived with them since she had been obliged to part from the Master.

Now she heard with a fearful joy that Jesus was in Jerusalem.

Her brother, Lazarus, was in still greater excitement about it.

The youth declared that the Master had accomplished the greatest thing of all in regard to him.

He could not talk about it enough, and was irritated if they did not receive his tale as the very newest thing, although it had happened months before, when Jesus had been in the wilderness of Judaea.