John 11:1

Now a man named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill; he belonged to the same village as 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

2This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair.

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Cross References

Mark 11:1When they had almost reached Jerusalem, as far as Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two of his disciples.

Luke 16:20Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,

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

John 12:1Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

John 12:17Meanwhile the people who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.

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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