John 11:1
Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
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In The King James Version
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
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2 Kings 20:1In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.
Mark 11:1And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Beth-phage and Bethany, at the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
Luke 16:20And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
John 11:5Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 12:1Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.
John 12:17Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.
Matthew Henry on John 11:1
In this chapter we have the history of that illustrious miracle which Christ wrought a little before his death—the raising of Lazarus to life, which is recorded only by this evangelist; for the other three confine themselves to what Christ did in Galilee, where he resided most, and scarcely ever carried their history into Jerusalem till the passion-week: whereas John's memoirs relate chiefly to what passed at Jerusalem; this passage therefore was reserved for his pen. Some suggest that, when the other evangelists… Read the whole commentary →