John 11:1
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters Mary and 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 20:1About this time Hezekiah fell very sick and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your affairs in order, because you are going to die. You won't recover.”
Mark 11:1As they approached Jerusalem, near to Bethphage and Bethany, beside the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead.
Luke 16:20A beggar named Lazarus used to sit at his gate, covered in sores,
John 11:5Even though Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,
John 12:1Six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, to the home of Lazarus who had been raised from the dead.
John 12:17Many in the crowd had seen Jesus call Lazarus from the tomb and raise him from the dead, and were telling the story.
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 →