![]() ![]() ( W) The one who believes ( X) in me will live, even though they die 26 and whoever lives by believing ( Y) in me will never die. ( R) 22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” ( S)Ģ3 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”Ģ4 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection ( T) at the last day.” ( U)Ģ5 Jesus said to her, “I am ( V) the resurrection and the life. ( Q)Ģ1 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ( P) 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. ( N) 18 Now Bethany ( O) was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. But let us go to him.”ġ6 Then Thomas ( M) (also known as Didymus ) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarusġ7 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. ( L)ġ4 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. ( I) 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”ġ1 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend ( J) Lazarus has fallen asleep ( K) but I am going there to wake him up.”ġ2 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. ![]() 6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, 7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” ( F)Ĩ “But Rabbi,” ( G) they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, ( H) and yet you are going back?”ĩ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. No, it is for God’s glory ( E) so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ( B) 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) ( C) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love ( D) is sick.”Ĥ When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. He was from Bethany, ( A) the village of Mary and her sister Martha. The purpose of the parable is to teach us the evil result of the unwise neglect of one’s opportunities: Lazarus was rewarded, not because he was poor, but for his virtuous acceptance of poverty the rich man was punished, not because he was rich, but for vicious neglect of the opportunities given him by his wealth.11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. It is also legendary that the sores of Lazarus were leprous. ![]() (2) The Meaning.- Catholic exegetes now commonly accept the story as a parable. Lazarus is not allowed to leave the heavenly banquet and tend to the outcast. Lazarus partakes of the banquet in a place of honor (cf. (b) Their Condition Hereafter.-The earthly banquet is over the heavenly banquet is begun. The beggar had been cast helpless at the rich man’s gate, and lay there all covered with sores he yearned for the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, but received none, and was left to the dogs. fine linen), and spent each day in gay carousing. LAZARUS OF THE PARABLE.-(I) The Story.-The dramatic story of the rich man and the beggar (only in Luke, xvi, 19-31) is set forth by Christ in two striking scenes: (a) Their Condition Here.-The rich man was clothed in purple and byssus (D. ![]() a character in one of Christ’s parables, and the brother of Martha and Mary of Bethania. Laxaros, a contraction of Eleazaros-see II Mach., vi, 18-meaning in Hebrew “ God hath helped”), the name of two persons in the N. ![]()
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