John 11:1

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha

Montgomery New Testament

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

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

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Cross References

Mark 11:1Now when they were approaching Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives,

Luke 16:20"And a certain beggar named Lazarus was thrown at his door.

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

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

John 12:17Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.

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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