Lazarus

Family: Bethany · Role: brother of Mary and Martha · First appears: John 11

Lazarus of Bethany is the brother of Mary of Bethany and Martha. In John 11, he had been dead and lain in the grave for four days when Jesus came to Bethany and raised him. Lazarus came out bound in graveclothes, and Jesus commanded, “Loose him, and let him go.” Jesus called him a friend and loved Lazarus, Mary of Bethany, and Martha.

Six days before the passover, Lazarus was at Bethany with Jesus, having been raised from the dead. He sat at the table with Jesus while Martha served, and the chief priests formed a plot to kill Lazarus because many Jews believed in Jesus because of him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lazarus is dead and has lain in the grave for four days.(John 11 · 📍 Bethany)
  • “Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.”
• Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead and commands that he be released from his graveclothes.(John 11 · 📍 Bethany)
  • With: Jesus
  • “And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
• Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.(John 12 · 📍 Bethany)
  • With: Jesus
  • “Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.”
• A plot was formed to kill Lazarus because his resurrection led many to believe in Jesus.(John 12 · 📍 Bethany)
  • “But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.”

John 11

• siblings with Mary of Bethany (Mary is identified as Lazarus's sister.) “Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.”
• siblings with Martha (Martha is identified as Lazarus's sister.) “Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.”
• friends with Jesus “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.”
• commander: Jesus (Jesus commands that Lazarus be released.) “And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
• with Jesus (Jesus loved Lazarus.) “Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.”

John 12

• with Jesus (Lazarus sat at the table with Jesus.) “There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.”

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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.