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John 12:1

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

KJV

Ὁ οὖν Ἰησοῦς πρὸ ἓξ ἡμερῶν τοῦ πάσχα ἦλθεν εἰς Βηθανίαν, ὅπου ἦν Λάζαρος, ὃν ἤγειρεν ἐκ νεκρῶν Ἰησοῦς.

Greek NT

Jesus ergo ante sex dies Paschæ venit Bethaniam, ubi Lazarus fuerat mortuus, quem suscitavit Jesus.

Vulgate

Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.

ASV

Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Βηθανία
bethania
noun · 12×
Λάζαρος
lazaros
noun · 15×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
νεκρός
nekros
adjective · 128×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πάσχα
pascha
aramaic_word · 29×
πρό
pro
preposition · 47×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἕξ
ex
adjective · 12×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×
ὅπου
opou
adverb · 82×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: Λάζαρος | WH/NIV: Λάζαρος | Treg/RP: + ὁ τεθνηκώς
  • ΛάζαροςSBLGNT
  • ΛάζαροςWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ὁ τεθνηκώςTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: Ἰησοῦς | WH/NIV: Ἰησοῦς | Treg: ὁ Ἰησοῦς
  • ἸησοῦςSBLGNT
  • ἸησοῦςWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὁ ἸησοῦςTregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

The thirty æons are not typified by the fact that Christ was baptized in His thirtieth year: He did not suffer in the twelfth month after His baptism, but was more than fifty years old when He died. 1. I have shown that the number thirty fails them in every respect; too few æons, as they represent them, being at one time found within the Pleroma, and then again too many [to cor…
1. The heathen are stuck fast in the destruction which they made; in the trap which they hid is their foot taken. Psalm 9:15, Septuagint This has been the case with the Jews. They said that they would kill Jesus, lest the Romans should come and take away their place and nation; and when they had killed Him, these things happened unto them, and when they had done that by doing w…

Cross-references

  • John 11:1 — Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
  • John 11:55 — And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
  • John 11:55 — And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
  • Luke 7:37 — And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
  • Luke 10:38 — Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
  • Luke 24:50 — And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
  • Mark 14:3 — And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his
  • Mark 14:3 — And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his
  • Matt 8:15 — And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
  • Matt 21:17 — And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
  • Matt 26:6 — Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,