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20 Yet a certain Poor-one was to name Lazarus, who had been cast toward the gate of him, having sores-abiding
In contrast to the Rich Man, we now look at Lazarus:
Lazarus and the Rich Man - Here a little, there a little - Commentary
The first thing to note is that he is depicted as a beggar. This is an apt description of the Gentiles who "laid at the gate" of Judah. Paul describes the predicament of the Gentiles before they accepted the Messiah in his letter to the Ephesians:
Additionally, we are told that dogs came and consoled Lazarus in his misery, licking his sores. The Jews considered the surrounding Gentiles to be unclean "dogs." Even Yeshua himself used this unflattering comparison when he conversed with the Greek Syrophoenician woman while in the region of Tyre (Mark 7:24-30).
Also important to the story is the meaning of the name Lazarus. This Greek name is a form of the Hebrew Eleazer, and it literally means "he whom God helps." The use of this particular name is very significant to the message of the parable, for the Gentiles would indeed become "those whom God helped" through the sacrifice of His son, Yeshua.
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In contrast to the Rich Man, we now look at Lazarus:
Lazarus and the Rich Man - Here a little, there a little - Commentary
The first thing to note is that he is depicted as a beggar. This is an apt description of the Gentiles who "laid at the gate" of Judah. Paul describes the predicament of the Gentiles before they accepted the Messiah in his letter to the Ephesians:
This Scripture is also a fitting representation of the position of the nations before the Messiah's sacrifice for the world's sins. They were certainly "excluded from the commonwealth of Israel," "strangers to the covenants of promise," and "without hope and without God in the world." The Gentiles were beggars, located outside Judah and longing to be fed spiritual crumbs from the table of the divinely blessed Jews.EPHESIANS 2:12 Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Additionally, we are told that dogs came and consoled Lazarus in his misery, licking his sores. The Jews considered the surrounding Gentiles to be unclean "dogs." Even Yeshua himself used this unflattering comparison when he conversed with the Greek Syrophoenician woman while in the region of Tyre (Mark 7:24-30).
Also important to the story is the meaning of the name Lazarus. This Greek name is a form of the Hebrew Eleazer, and it literally means "he whom God helps." The use of this particular name is very significant to the message of the parable, for the Gentiles would indeed become "those whom God helped" through the sacrifice of His son, Yeshua.
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LAZARUS
Who is the poor neglected beggar full of sores, to whom the very dogs show more pity and kindness than the rich man? The rich man “fared sumptuously every day” while Lazarus was lying at his gate a mass of sores, loathsome and in want, and yet uncared for and unpitied by him who enjoyed so many blessings. Who is this poor, wretched, pathetic, despised man?
The Jews looked upon the heathen nations about them as barbarians and dogs. It seems quite clear therefore that in this parable Lazarus is the people lying at Judah’s gate who are recipients of none of the blessings so lavishly bestowed upon them. In the rich man we see the children of the Kingdom, who as such were clothed in purple and fine linen, rich and increased with goods, daily feasting on the finest of delicacies, contrasted with the heathen world, lost, full of sores, and lacking everything. Lazarus was laid at the rich man’s gate full of sores, which denotes his cast-out and spiritually deficient condition.
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Lazaurs only appears in the Gospels of Luke [4 verses in Luke 16] and John.
"lazarus" occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the NKJV.
Luk 16:20
“But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
Luk 16:23
“And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luk 16:24
“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.'
Luk 16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.
Jhn 11:1
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
Jhn 11:2
It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Jhn 11:5
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
Jhn 11:11
These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”
Jhn 11:14
Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
Jhn 11:43
Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
Jhn 12:1
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead,[fn] whom He had raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:2
There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.
Jhn 12:9
Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:10
But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,
Jhn 12:17
Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness.
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https://www.quora.com/What-does-Lazarus-represent-in-the-Bible
Lazarus is an abridged form of the Hebrew name Eleazar, meaning "whom God helps" or "God has helped." There are two men named Lazarus who are mentioned in the New Testament;
1. A beggar described in a parable - Luke 16:20-25
2. The brother of Mary and Martha, raised from the dead - John 11:1-44.
The Greek name Λαζαροσ (Lazaros) is the Hellenized version of the Hebrew nameאלעזר, Eleazar, which in the Septuagint appears transliterated as Ελεαζαρ. The two best-known Eleazars of the Hebrew Bible are the son of Aaron, the arch-father of all priests, and the son of Abinadab, in whose house the Ark of the Covenant resided. Both these Eleazars had brothers whom God killed for their inappropriate handling of the Ark or the sanctuary it was deposited in.
It may very well be that the Lazarus(es) of the New Testament may also serve as a kind of marker for the discussion on the consequences of someone else's sin, and the inevitable death-because-of-sin that befalls us all. Irrespective of the things we do, we all sin and we all die. Some of us die earlier, some of us have hard lives. And some of us partake in the resurrection.
Lazarus represents the state of the believer. A believer is helped by God, now and hereafter. Whatever a believer may lose in this world, he will recover back in the world to come in many folds. The Lazarus in John's account, points to the future resurrection of the believer, while the Lazarus in Luke's account shows the final reward of the believer.
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In the parable in Luke chapter 16, Lazarus was compared to the rich man, to show that those who have suffered in this life will be rewarded in the next.
The name Lazarus occurs in only one other place in the Bible, which is in John’s Gospel. John chapter 11 tells us that Lazarus, brother of Mary and Martha was dead, but that Jesus brought him back to life. Whereas in Luke, Lazarus is not the brother of Mary and Martha, occurring only in a parable about death and resurrection, he is portrayed as an actual person in John, where he is resurrected by Jesus.
The author of John’s Gospel wanted a dramatic scene that would more fully justify the intention of the priests to arrest Jesus. His resurrection of Lazarus provided that trigger, as we can see when they met together and expressed fear that all the people would come to believe in Jesus:-
Here, Lazarus represents the turning point, from which Jesus will be crucified.John 11:47–48: Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
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