11:44 And he came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes - Which were wrapt round each hand and each foot, and his face was wrapt about with a napkin - If the Jews buried as the Egyptians did, the face was not covered with it. 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. Lazarus, come forth - Jesus called him out of the tomb as easily as if he had been not only alive, but awake also. These things said he In answer to his disciples, and made a pause. 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. 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. 11 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ( John 11:1) All that we know of him is derived from the Gospel of St. This chapter relates unto us the miraculous power of Christ, in raising of dead Lazarus, which, as it was one. 1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
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