John 11:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW A certain man named Lazarus was ill. He was of Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Common English Bible

¹ A certain man, Lazarus, was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Now there was a certain sick man, Lazarus of Bethania, from the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ NOW there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and Martha her sister.

John 11:1 Cross References

Genesis 48:1

After this Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Matthew 21:17

He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

Mark 11:1

When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples

John 11:11

After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.”

John 11:18

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away,

John 11:19

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.

John 11:3

So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

John 12:17

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.

John 12:9

When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

Acts 9:37

At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs.