![]() There might be a number of niches in the tomb where the bodies of family members were placed. Months after today’s story, Jesus’ body would be prepared in this same way ( John 19:39-40 and 20:3-7). ![]() The linen strips were then wrapped around the body over the clothing. They placed a cloth over the head and wrapped the hands and feet separately in strips of linen. The body was washed and anointed with spices. It was customary for a person to be buried on the same day as they died. This was the amount of time that Lazarus was dead before Jesus came to him. Add the travelling time of the messengers and Jesus together with the two days and you come up with four days. Jesus waited two days to go to Lazarus because he knew that this sickness would not end in death (verse 4). Lazarus must have died just after Mary and Martha sent messengers to tell Jesus of his sickness. It was a small settlement at the edge of the Judean desert on the slope of the Mount of Olives.Īt the time Lazarus got sick, Jesus was preaching on the eastern side of the Jordan near the place where John the Baptist had baptised him. This is not the woman in Luke 7:36-50.īethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem. ![]() John identifies Mary as the one who anointed Jesus’ feet with oil and wiped them with her hair ( John 12:1-8). Lazarus’ two sisters, Mary and Martha, are mentioned in Luke 10:38-42. ![]() It is another Lazarus in Jesus’ story in Luke 16:19-31. In fact, despite the fact that Jesus was very good friends with him, we only read about Lazarus in John chapters 11-12. The proposal of various writers that the evangelist here adopted the name of the more familiar Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead ( John 11:1ff.) is to be rejected as there are no lower critical grounds to support it.This story is only recorded in the gospel of John. usage of the omniscient power of Christ as it logically connects a group of typical parables to a definite prophetic statement in Luke 17. The decisions of this life are thus eternally binding. The major theme of the story is its condemnation of the self-righteous rich and its assurance that God’s revelation is effective in calling men to repentance. 160?-230? (who thought that Herod and John the Baptist were meant). In the history of Lucan exegesis some have thought that here is a veiled allusion to characters living and well known in the Apostolic age, e.g. However, some commentators judge that if this is so it is out of character with the normative nature of J esus’ parabolic discourse. The traditional orthodox position has been to assume that Jesus’ narrative about the condition of the two men after death was based upon His divine omniscience. important as the story takes place on two levels and in two universes of discourse, the life on this earth and the life of the world to come. The central theological issue concerning the story has been the use of a name for the poor man-the only such ascription in all of our Lord’s parables. 759, 760.) Other names for this anonymous rich man were current among the Syrian and Coptic rite churches, but they were not adopted in the W. “Lazar and Dives liveden diversly, and diverse guerdon hadden they thereby-” (Chaucer, The Summoner’s Tale 11. due to the use of it in cathedral dramas enacting the story, e.g. The use of the name “Dives” is found early in Eng. it as, Homo quidam erat dives, “there was a certain rich man.” In the narrative, however, the rich man remains indefinite and unnamed. The name Dives is a literal transliteration of the Lat. The name means “whom God helps” and became common as a personal name throughout the history of Israel ancient and modern. personal name, לַעְזַר, an apocopated form of אֶלְעָזָ֖ר, the familiar name Eleazar of the OT ( Exod 6:23 and numerous other passages). Λάζαρος, G3276, which, in turn, represents the rabbinic Heb. LAZARUS AND DIVES lăz’ ər əs, dī’ vĕz, from Jesus’ parable recorded in Luke 16:19-31.
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