John 11:1

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village 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

2It was Mary who anointed the Lord with myrrh and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1In those days Hezekiah was sick to the point of dying. So Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, 'Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.'”

Mark 11:1Now as they came to Jerusalem, they were close to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, and Jesus sent out two of his disciples

Luke 16:20A certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,

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

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

John 12:17Now the crowd testified that they had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him up from the dead.

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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