John 12:1

Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

In Context

2So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:17So He left them and went out of the city to Bethany and passed the night there.

Mark 11:11So He came into Jerusalem and into the Temple; and after looking round upon everything there, the hour being now late He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

Luke 24:50And He brought them out to within view of Bethany, and then lifted up His hands and blessed them.

John 11:44The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free."

John 12:20Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks.

Matthew Henry on John 12:1

It was a melancholy account which we had in the close of the foregoing chapter of the dishonour done to our Lord Jesus, when the scribes and Pharisees proclaimed him a traitor to their church, and put upon him all the marks of ignominy they could: but the story of this chapter balances that, by giving us an account of the honour done to the Redeemer, notwithstanding all that reproach thrown upon him. Thus the one was set over against the other. Let us see what honours were heaped on the head of the Lord Jesus,… Read the whole commentary →

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