Bethany

Ancient Bethany - Kids Bible maps

This map shows the location of Bethany in the land of Israel. The town of Bethany was located about two miles east of Jerusalem on the road toward the city of Jericho. Bethany is where the man named Lazarus lived, and he was friends with Jesus. When Lazarus was sick his sisters sent for Jesus to come and heal him, but Jesus had a different pl...

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Ancient Bethany - Map of New Testament Israel

BETH`A-NY (house of song, or affliction), A village of Israel, on the slope of Olivet, about four miles from Jerusalem, now called Lazarieh, "village of Lazarus," Mark 11:1 ; Luke 19:29....

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Bethany Scripture - Matthew 26:6

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,...

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Bethany Scripture - John 11:18

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:...

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Bethany Scripture - Matthew 21:17

And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there....

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Bethany Scripture - Luke 24:50

And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them....

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Bethany Scripture - Mark 11:12

And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:...

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Bethany Scripture - Mark 11:1

And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,...

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Bethany Scripture - John 11:1

Now a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha....

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Bethany in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("house of dates".) Bethabara, though dates have long disappeared from the locality, and only olives and figs remain (whence Olivet and Bethphage are named). (See BETHABARA.) Bethany is not mentioned until the New Testament time, which agrees with the Chaldee hinee being the word used for "dates" in the composition of the name, Beth-any. Asso...

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