1Then 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 being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. …
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)In these verses we have, I. The kind visit our Lord Jesus paid to his friends at Bethany, John 12:1. He came up out of the country, six days before the passover , and took up at Bethany, a town which, according to the computation of our metropolis, lay so near Jerusalem as to be within the bills of mortality. He lodged here with his friend Lazarus, whom he had lately raised from the dead . His com…
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