John 11:1

Plain English Version

Jesus had a friend called Lazarus, and he lived in a little town in Judea country called Bethany. He lived there with his sisters, Mary and Martha. (Mary was the woman that, later on, rubbed Jesus’s feet with special perfume and wiped them with her hair.) One day, Lazarus got very sick,

Cross References

Genesis 48:1

One day, not long after that, somebody said to Joseph, “Your father is really sick. He might die soon.” So Joseph went to see his father Jacob. And Joseph took his 2 sons with him. Their names were Manasseh and Ephraim.

Mark 11:1

Jesus and his followers kept going, and they got near to Jerusalem. They came to the 2 towns called Bethany and Bethfage, on the hill called Olive Trees Hill.

John 11:11

Then Jesus said to them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep. I am going to wake him up.”

John 11:18

Bethany was about 3 kilometres from Jerusalem.

John 11:19

Mary and Martha were really sad, so a lot of people from Jerusalem came and sat down with them, to be sad with them and help them feel better.

John 11:3

so Mary and Martha sent a message to Jesus. They said, “Your good friend Lazarus is very sick.”

John 12:17

Before that day, there were a lot of people that kept on telling everyone, “We heard Jesus call to Lazarus and tell him to come out of the cave. We saw Jesus make him alive again.”

John 12:9

The people in that country heard that Jesus was in Bethany, and a big mob went to see him. They wanted to see Lazarus too, the man that Jesus made alive again.

Acts 9:37

But she got sick and died. The other Christians there washed her body, and they put it in a room upstairs in her house.