"... Anthony Hanson and Max Wilcox, co-founders of the Seminar on the use of the Old Testament in the New, identified the opening words of Jesus' prayer in Jn 11.41 as an allusion to Ps. 118.21 (LXX 117.21), and did so working independently of one another. Hanson was first to get into print in an article in 1973. Wilcox published four years later, by which time the coincidence had been discovered. The aim of this study is to offer support for this joint identification by approaching Jn 11.41-42 from the broader perspective of the composition of the Lazarus story as a whole ... we are now in a position to render a plausible account of the processes of creative interpretation of tradition which gave John's text its final form ... I am in agreement with the view that the Lazarus story was not originally part of the Gospel but was added to it by John at a later stage, probably in the process of a second edition. This is an important point because it affects our understanding of how John has worked: it means that the story was almost certainly interpolated into already existing material and that therefore, in composing it, John also designed it to fit its new surroundings ..."