![]() 4 But when Jesus heard this, He said, This sic. 3 So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick. Lazarus spoken of in the Gospel story is portrayed as a destitute beggar, covered in sores with dogs who lick his wounds. Their mission is to care for those with leprosy. For many centuries, the Church’s liturgy taught that the Mary of Bethany and the Mary of Magdala were one and the same, with the composite Mary feast. 2 It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. A religious community named the Order of Saint Lazarus is named after Saint Lazarus. God loves families, and Jesus Christ gravitated toward, and eagerly shared in, the family life of the siblings Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. John clearly saw the Lazarus event as the last great deed Jesus performed as proof of his divinity before his arrest and crucifixion. 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. However, Luke’s account of this event is much briefer than John’s Lazarus story, and it happens much earlier in Jesus’ life. In Luke 7:14-15, Jesus raises the dead son of a widow, with the wording of Luke (‘And he that was dead sat up’) being echoed by John’s ‘And he that was dead came forth’. ![]() Whatever the truth of it, there are examples elsewhere in the Gospels of Jesus raising the dead. The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (Ordo Militaris et Hospitalis Sancti Lazari Hierosolymitani), better known as the Knights. It’s possible (as the authors of the Dictionary of the Bible suggest) that John is expanding the parable of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke’s gospel (in which Lazarus, the humble beggar, goes to heaven but the rich man does not). But only John mentions the story of Jesus raising Lazarus (the other one) from the dead. Lazarus, of whom alone we have to treat here, went to Marseilles, and, having converted a number of its inhabitants to Christianity, became their first pastor. Luke (chapter 16) tells of Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus, but this Lazarus (a beggar) isn’t the one whom Jesus raised from the dead. ![]() They appear to have been different people.
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