John 11:1

BUT a certain man was sick, Loozar, of the village Bethania: (he was) the brother of Mariam and of Martha.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2It was that Mariam who anointed with balsam the feet of Jeshu, and wiped (them) with her hair, whose brother this Loozar was who was sick.

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Cross References

Mark 11:1AND when they drew nigh to Urishlem, against Bethphage and Beth-ania, at the mount of Olives, he sent two from his disciples,

Luke 16:20And there was a certain poor man, whose name was Loózar; and he lay at the gate of him who was rich, bruised with wounds,

John 11:5But Jeshu loved Martha and Mariam and Loozar.

John 12:1But Jeshu six days before the petscha came to Bethania, where Loozar was, he whom Jeshu had raised from among the dead.

John 12:17But the assembly that was with him when he called Loozar from the sepulchre, and raised him from among the dead, bare witness.

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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