![]() ![]() Perhaps in prospect of this history our Saviour made use of the name of Lazarus in that parable wherein he designed to set forth the blessedness of the righteous in the bosom of Abraham immediately after death, Luke 16 22. Here was a brother named Lazarus his Hebrew name probably was Eleazar, which being contracted, and a Greek termination put to it, is made Lazarus. For I see no reason to think, as some do, that Martha and Mary were owners of the town, and the rest were their tenants. It is here called the town of Mary and Martha, that is, the town where they dwelt, as Bethsaida is called the city of Andrew and Peter, ch. They lived at Bethany, a village nor far from Jerusalem, where Christ usually lodged when he came up to the feasts. ![]() A particular account of the parties principally concerned in this story, v. 16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe nevertheless let us go unto him. 14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. 8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee and goest thou thither again? 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. 7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judæa again. 6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. The Death of Lazarus.ġ Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. The effect wrought by this miracle upon others, ver 45-57. The miracle wrought in the raising of Lazarus from the dead, ver 33-44. The visit he made to Lazarus's relations when he had heard of his death, and their entertainment of the visit, ver 17-32. The tidings sent to our Lord Jesus of the sickness of Lazarus, and his entertainment of those tidings, ver 1-16. ![]() It is more largely recorded than any other of Christ's miracles, not only because there are many circumstances of it so very instructive and the miracle of itself so great a proof of Christ's mission, but because it was an earnest of that which was to be the crowning proof of all-Christ's own resurrection. Some suggest that, when the other evangelists wrote, Lazarus was alive, and it would not well agree either with his safety or with his humility to have it recorded till now, when it is supposed he was dead. 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.
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