When Jesus restored his friend Lazarus to life, the miracle signified much more than bodily resurrection, as Luke Bell explains in his fifth reflection for Lent One of the most powerful presentations of the Gospel in literature is in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Sonia, who in dire need has taken to prostitution, reads the story of the raising of Lazarus (at his request) to Raskolnikov, who is guilty of murder. The latter realises that she is most anxious to read it to him and to make sure he has heard it. As Sonia approaches the great miracle, her voice is full of triumph and joy. When she finishes, neither says anything for five minutes or more, with a candle-end “flickering in the bent candlestick, dimly lighting up in that poverty-stricken room the murderer and the