Speaking at last of her hitherto ultra-secret six-week "rest" in Germany, Mrs Patience Jonathan, not known for nuance or circumspection, made a direct comparison to the biblical Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead.
"I am not Lazarus," she said, then added "but my experience was similar to his." Not merely similar but greater, as she soon showed why her back-to-life miracle tops the act by which Jesus sought to prove that he is "the resurrection and the life" and that whoever believes in him "will live" even "though he were dead."
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