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Old 05-12-2007, 03:10 PM
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Lazarus went to Heaven (duh!). There is no other place (limbo, purgatory, etc.).

When Jesus resurrected him, it makes sense to say that He gave Lazarus instructions to not speak of what he saw and heard there (along the lines of Paul saying the same kind of thing about his experience).
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