John 11:1

And there was a sick man, Lazarus of Bethany, of the castle of Mary and Martha, his sisters, (or in the village of Mary and Martha, his sisters).

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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

2And it was Mary, which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hairs, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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Cross References

2 Kings 20:1In those days Hezekiah was sick unto the death; and Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord God saith these things, Command to thine house, that is, make thy (last will and) testament /Dispose to thine house (or Put thy house in order), for thou shalt die, and thou shalt not live.

Mark 11:1And when Jesus came nigh to Jerusalem and to Bethany, to the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples,

Luke 16:20And there was a beggar, Lazarus by name, that lay at his gate full of boils,

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

John 12:1Therefore Jesus before six days of pask came to Bethany, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised (from the dead). (And so six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus had died, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.)

John 12:17Therefore the people bare witnessing, that was with him, when he called Lazarus from the grave, and raised him from death [or and raised him from (the) dead]. (And so the people, who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, testified about that.)

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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