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John 12:2

There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

KJV

ἐποίησαν οὖν αὐτῷ δεῖπνον ἐκεῖ, καὶ ἡ Μάρθα διηκόνει, ὁ δὲ Λάζαρος εἷς ἦν ἐκ τῶν ἀνακειμένων σὺν αὐτῷ.

Greek NT

Fecerunt autem ei cœnam ibi, et Martha ministrabat, Lazarus vero unus erat ex discumbentibus cum eo.

Vulgate

So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.

ASV

And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Λάζαρος
lazaros
noun · 15×
Μάρθα
martha
noun · 13×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δεῖπνον
deipnon
noun · 16×
διακονέω
diakoneo
verb · 37×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
σύν
sun
preposition · 129×
ἀνακεῖμαι
anakeimai
verb · 14×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐκεῖ
ekei
adverb · 94×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: ἐκ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐκ
  • ἐκSBLGNT
  • ἐκWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

2. And, behold, it is said, a woman that had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind Him, and touched the hem of His garment. For she said within herself, If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole. Wherefore did she not approach Him boldly? She was ashamed on account of her affliction, accounting herself to be unclean. For if the menstruous woman was judged not to be…

Cross-references

  • John 11:43 — And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
  • John 12:9 — Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
  • Luke 7:34 — The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
  • 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 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
  • Luke 22:27 — For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
  • 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 26:6 — Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  • Matt 26:7 — There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
  • Rev 3:20 — Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.