John 11:1

Now there was a certain sick man, Lazarus of Bethania, from the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

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Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

In Context

2And Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was sick.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1In those days, Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came and said to him: “Thus says the Lord God: Instruct your house, for you will die, and not live.”

Mark 11:1And as they were approaching Jerusalem and Bethania, toward the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

Luke 16:20And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, covered with sores,

John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.

John 12:1Then six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethania, where Lazarus had died, whom Jesus raised up.

John 12:17And so the crowd that had been with him, when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, offered testimony.

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 →

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