

Saint Teresa of Calcutta most likely would have said, Make friends. Lazarus would have been there, in silence, to accompany Jesus. However, Luke’s account of this event is much briefer than John’s Lazarus story, and it happens much earlier in Jesus’ life. Jesus was his friend and he was suffering. Lazarus is the only individual character in the Fourth Gospel explicitly identified by name as Jesus’s friend. The first Lazarus is the subject of a story told by Jesus ( Luke 16:1931 ). When Jesus arrived at the home of these good friends, Lazarus had already been dead. In Luke 7:14-15, Jesus raises the dead son of a widow, with the wording of Luke (‘And he that was dead sat up’) being echoed by John’s ‘And he that was dead came forth’. Answer There are two men called Lazarus in the Bible. Mary and Martha sent for Jesus when their brother, Lazarus got sick. He was, basically, in all points tempted like as we are. Whatever the truth of it, there are examples elsewhere in the Gospels of Jesus raising the dead. Jesus wept at the death of Lazarus because He was moved with compassion. 6: Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days. Martha was confused and hurt that Jesus had allowed His friend Lazarus to die. Jesus did not arrive in Bethany until four days after Lazarus passed away. Jesus delayed His arrival, and Lazarus died. He had grown sick, and his sisters sent for Jesus to come to Bethany.

It’s possible (as the authors of the Dictionary of the Bible suggest) that John is expanding the parable of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke’s gospel (in which Lazarus, the humble beggar, goes to heaven but the rich man does not). Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Lazarus was a friend of Jesus, along with his sisters, Mary and Martha. This is a beloved family, according to John 11:5. But only John mentions the story of Jesus raising Lazarus (the other one) from the dead. The Beloved Disciple has also been identified with Lazarus of Bethany, based on John 11:5: Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, and John 11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

She thought she had to wait until the end of time to see Lazarus again. Luke (chapter 16) tells of Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus, but this Lazarus (a beggar) isn’t the one whom Jesus raised from the dead. I know - in the resurrection at the last day, Martha replied. They appear to have been different people.
