venerates lazarus as having been on this place. >> there's a record of worship here since the fourth century. today the tomb believed to be that of lazarus is 33 feet underground. >> this chamber is actually built at a much later date after jesus, but it's built over this small place here which is actually carved out of the bedrock. this is understood by tradition to be the tomb of lazarus. >> so father beck, what can you tell us about the evidence supporting the existence of lazarus? >> well, certainly we know in some way that the story is told to say that jesus was human, it's someone whom jesus loved, we're told, a friend, he weeps when he dies. yet the divine part is he brings him back to life. so it's in the scripture. it's john 11, the story of lazarus. and there's a tradition then that he went to cyprus and was buried there. well, is that tradition true and how do we know today if that's