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New Testament scholars have sought to explain how the story of Lazarus was probably composed. (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.) (11:2) [6] Verse 2, which many translations put between parentheses, [7] is at the centre of much scholarly controversy. [8]
Lazarus of Bethany [a] is a figure of the New Testament whose life is restored by Jesus four days after his death, as told in the Gospel of John. The resurrection is considered one of the miracles of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Lazarus is venerated as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead. [4]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. The New International Version translates the passage as: he said, "Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep." But they laughed at him.
The Bosom of Abraham, Romanesque capital from the former Priory of Alspach, Alsace.(Unterlinden Museum, Colmar)The Bosom of Abraham refers to the place of comfort in the biblical Sheol (or Hades in the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures from around 200 BC, and therefore so described in the New Testament) [1] where the righteous dead await Judgment Day.
The title is a reference to a biblical quote from the King James Version of the Christian Bible, Acts 26, verse 14. The album marked the Bad Seeds debut of drummer Thomas Wydler, expanding the Bad Seeds line-up to Cave (vocals and keyboards), Wydler, bassist Barry Adamson, and guitarists Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld.
According to the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, the Harrowing of Hell was foreshadowed by Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead prior to his own crucifixion. Christ's Descent into Limbo , woodcut by Albrecht Dürer , c. 1510 Russian icon of John the Baptist foretelling the descent of Christ to the righteous in Hades (17th century ...
The name Lazarus, from the Hebrew: אלעזר, Elʿāzār, Eleazar - "God is my help", [23] also belongs to the more famous biblical character Lazarus of Bethany, known as "Lazarus of the Four Days", [24] who is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus resurrects him four days after his death.
The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem is an order of chivalry that originated in a leper hospital founded by Knights Hospitaller in the 12th century by Crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Saint Lazarus is one of the most ancient of the European orders of chivalry, yet is one of the less-known and less-documented orders.