He is identified as the brother of the sisters Mary and Martha. A certain Lazarus, who lives in the town of Bethany near Jerusalem, is introduced as a follower of Jesus. The biblical narrative of the raising of Lazarus is found in chapter 11 of the Gospel of John. In John, this is the last of the miracles that Jesus performs before the passion, crucifixion and his own resurrection. The event is said to have taken place at Bethany. The raising of Lazarus is a miracle of Jesus recounted only in the Gospel of John (John 11:1–44) in the New Testament in which Jesus raises Lazarus of Bethany from the dead four days after his entombment. The Raising of Lazarus, by Duccio, 1310–11 There are also numerous literary uses of the term.Ī distinct character of the same name is also mentioned in the Gospel of Luke in Jesus' parable of the rich man and Lazarus, in which both eponymous characters die, and the former begs for the latter to be resurrected. The name Lazarus is frequently used in science and popular culture in reference to apparent restoration to life for example, the scientific term Lazarus taxon denotes organisms that reappear in the fossil record after a period of apparent extinction, and also the Lazarus sign and the Lazarus syndrome. For this reason, it is given a prominent place in the gospel."
In the context of the seven signs in the Gospel of John, the raising of Lazarus at Bethany – today the Palestinian town of Al-Eizariya in the West Bank, which translates to "the place of Lazarus" – is the climactic narrative: exemplifying the power of Jesus "over the last and most irresistible enemy of humanity: death.
The Eastern Orthodox and Catholic traditions offer varying accounts of the later events of his life. Lazarus of Bethany (Latinised from Lazar, ultimately from Hebrew Eleazar, "God helped"), also venerated as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the subject of a sign of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death. In the scene of his resurrection, he is portrayed tightly bound in mummified clothes, which resemble swaddling bands. Sometimes vested as an apostle, sometimes as a bishop.
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