Lazarus
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things:
but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented....
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Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead....
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And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and
send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water,
and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame....
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Lazarus is a name found in two separate contexts in the New
Testament. Lazarus of Bethany is the subject of a miracle
recounted only in the Gospel of John,[1] in which Jesus
restores him to life four days after Lazarus's death. Another
Lazarus appears as a character in Jesus' parable of Lazarus
and Dives, or Lazarus and the Rich Man, recorded ...
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laz'-a-rus (Lazaros, an abridged form of the Hebrew name
Eleazar, with a Greek termination): Means "God has helped."
In Septuagint and Josephus are found the forms Eleazar, and
Eleazaros. The name was common among the Jews, and is given
to two men in the New Testament who have nothing to do with
each other.
1. Lazarus of Bethany:
The home of t...
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-1. Brother of Mary and Martha
Sickness and death of
Joh 11:1-14
Resurrection of
Joh 11:38-44; 12:17,18
Had dinner with Jesus
Joh 12:1,2,9
Plotted against by the chief priests
Joh 12:10,11...
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(whom God helps), another form of the Hebrew name Eleazar.
1. Lazarus of Bethany, the brother of Martha and
Mary. Joh 11:1 All that we know of him is derived from the
Gospel of St. John, and that records little more than the
facts of his death and resurrection. The language of Joh
11:1 implies that the sisters were the better known. Lazarus
i...
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an abbreviation of Eleazar, whom God helps. (1.) The brother
of
Mary and Martha of Bethany. He was raised from the
dead after he
had lain four days in the tomb (John 11:1-44). This
miracle so
excited the wrath of the Jews that they sought to put
both Jesus
and Lazarus to death.
(2.) A beggar named in the parable recorded Luke
16:19-31....
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LAZARUS or ELEAZAR ("God helps".)
1. Of Bethany; brother of Mary and Martha (John 11:1).
(See BETHANY.) The sisters were the better known, from whence
they are put prominently forward here, and in Luke 10:38,
etc., are alone named. Lazarus was "of (apo, 'belonging to at
that time') Bethany, from (ek, implying his original
settlement) the vil...
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