He was the brother of Martha and Mary ( John 11:1,2 see also Luke 10:38-41). The home of the Lazarus mentioned in John 11:1 was Bethany.

The name was common among the Jews, and is given to two men in the New Testament who have nothing to do with each other. Means 'God has helped.' In Septuagint and Josephus are found the forms Eleazar, and Eleazaros. Laz'-a-rus (Lazaros, an abridged form of the Hebrew name Eleazar, with a Greek termination): indicates this entry was also found in Hitchcock's Bible Names indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible The use of lazaretto and lazarhouse for the leper hospitals then founded in all parts of western Christendom, no less than that of lazaroni for the mendicants of Italian towns, is an indication of the effect of the parable upon the mind of Europe in the Middle Ages, and thence upon its later speech. The leper of the Middle Ages appears as a lazzaro. The name of a poor man in the well-known parable of ( Luke 16:19-31 ) The name of Lazarus has been perpetuated in an institution of the Christian Church.All the circumstances of John 11 and 12 point to wealth and social position above the average. Lazarus is 'of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.' From this and from the order of the three names in ( John 11:5 ) we may reasonably infer that Lazarus was the youngest of the family. The language of ( John 11:1 ) implies that the sisters were the better known. John, and that records little more than the facts of his death and resurrection. ( John 11:1 ) All that we know of him is derived from the Gospel of St. Lazarus of Bethany, the brother of Martha and Mary.( whom God helps ), another form of the Hebrew name Eleazar.

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