![]() ![]() 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.Ģ1 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. ![]() But let us go to him.”ġ6 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”ġ7 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”ġ1 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep but I am going there to wake him up.”ġ2 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.ġ4 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. ![]() 6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, 7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”Ĩ “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?”ĩ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”Ĥ When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. John clearly saw the Lazarus event as the last great deed Jesus performed as proof of his divinity before his arrest and crucifixion.1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. However, Luke’s account of this event is much briefer than John’s Lazarus story, and it happens much earlier in Jesus’ life. In Luke 7:14-15, Jesus raises the dead son of a widow, with the wording of Luke (‘And he that was dead sat up’) being echoed by John’s ‘And he that was dead came forth’. Whatever the truth of it, there are examples elsewhere in the Gospels of Jesus raising the dead. It’s possible (as the authors of the Dictionary of the Bible suggest) that John is expanding the parable of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke’s gospel (in which Lazarus, the humble beggar, goes to heaven but the rich man does not). But only John mentions the story of Jesus raising Lazarus (the other one) from the dead. Luke (chapter 16) tells of Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus, but this Lazarus (a beggar) isn’t the one whom Jesus raised from the dead. They appear to have been different people. Confusingly, though, there are two Lazaruses mentioned in the New Testament. Through being brought back to life by Jesus, Lazarus became famous. Bethany is now the West Bank town of Al-Eizariya, which translates to ‘the place of Lazarus’. Who was Lazarus? Lazarus was known in full as ‘Lazarus of Bethany’. ![]()
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