One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Lazarus. Every Lazarus in the Bible
person
Lazarus
Λάζαρος
Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, was raised from the dead by Jesus (Jhn.11.1-44; 12.1-2,9-11).
- verses
- 11
- first named
- John 11:1
- last named
- John 12:17
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Mary's brother
Description
Who was Lazarus?
Lazarus was the brother of Mary and Martha, who lived in the village of Bethany (Jhn.11.1). Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters (Jhn.11.5). When Lazarus fell ill, his sisters sent word to Jesus, but by the time Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been dead for four days (Jhn.11.6,17). Jesus went to the tomb and called for Lazarus to come out, and Lazarus emerged, still wrapped in burial cloths (Jhn.11.43-44). This miraculous sign led many to believe in Jesus (Jhn.11.45). Later, Jesus visited Lazarus' home, where Martha served a meal and Mary anointed Jesus' feet with perfume (Jhn.12.1-3). The chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus because his resurrection caused many to believe in Jesus (Jhn.12.9-11). Lazarus' story demonstrates Jesus' power over death and foreshadows His own resurrection.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Lazarus is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
11 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in John (11).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources