![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative displays Christ as a tender and compassionate friend, weeping for and with those he loved, and at the same time as the Prince of life, beginning his triumph over death and the grave. Our Savior had a high regard for the family, and often visited them and when Lazarus was dangerously ill, word was sent to Christ, "Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick." The Savior reached Bethany after he had lain four days in his grave, and restored him to life by a word, "Lazarus, come forth." This public and stupendous miracle drew so many to Christ, that his enemies sought to put both him and Lazarus to death, John 11:1-57 12:1-11. A friend and disciple of Christ, brother of Martha and Mary, with whom he resided at Bethany near Jerusalem. The use of lazaretto and lazarhouse for the leper hospitals then founded in all parts of western Christendom, no less than that of lazaroni for the mendicants of Italian towns, is an indication of the effect of the parable upon the mind of Europe in the Middle Ages, and thence upon its later speech.ฤก. The leper of the Middle Ages appears as a lazzaro. The name of a poor man in the well-known parable of ( Luke 16:19-31) The name of Lazarus has been perpetuated in an institution of the Christian Church.All the circumstances of John 11 and 12 point to wealth and social position above the average. Lazarus is "of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha." From this and from the order of the three names in ( John 11:5) we may reasonably infer that Lazarus was the youngest of the family. The language of ( John 11:1) implies that the sisters were the better known. ![]() John, and that records little more than the facts of his death and resurrection. ( John 11:1) All that we know of him is derived from the Gospel of St. Lazarus of Bethany, the brother of Martha and Mary.( whom God helps), another form of the Hebrew name Eleazar. ![]()
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