Naravist

Place

Bethany

Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.

A village on the Mount of Olives, home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Jesus raised Lazarus here, and six days before the Passover Mary anointed his feet in Bethany. The modern town is still named for Lazarus.

Who passed through

In story order. King James Version.

  1. Lazarus, John 11:1
    Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
  2. Jesus Christ, John 11:17
    Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
  3. Martha, John 11:20
    Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
  4. Jesus Christ, John 12:1
    Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
  5. Lazarus, John 12:2
    There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
  6. Mary of Bethany, John 12:3
    Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).