Where was Lazarus while he was dead for four days?
John 11:1-44
John 11:1-44
sbbqb7n16 said:Umm no... Lazarus was a common Jewish name of the day... and probably had little to nothing to do with the Lazarus which God raised from the dead. Two different people... like I know more than one John (like me ) but just because I say a parable about John... that doesn't mean that I'm talking about myself.
sbbqb7n16 said:Luke*16:20 "And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
John*11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
John*11:2 It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Well, the way I'm readin it, the Lazarus in the story was a beggar who lived for a long time with sores on his body outside the gate of a rich man. But Lazarus (the raised one) lived with his two sisters and was only short before his death that he became sick. So if one Lazarus from the parable was a sick beggar living outside the gate of a rich man's house, and the other is a person living under the care of his two sisters who died shortly after contracting an illness, then the two can't be one in the same.Philip said:Not sure how these are mutually exclusive.