You’ll find this in the biography of Jesus written by Luke, Chapter 10, verses 38 – 42:Īs Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. That is not really the point of the story. When really domestic work was all that women were allowed to do in the first place. Mary spends all her time sitting at Jesus’ feet listening to him talk, and leaves Martha to run around to care for all the guests on her own.įor years, in another spectacular own goal by the church on all things gender-related, this story has been used to make women feel guilty about doing too much domestic work. They also feature in the first meeting of the family with Jesus, when Martha invites Jesus to their home. Mary soon after this will anoint Jesus’ feet with oil and dry them with her hair, in what is one of the most powerful expressions of love and devotion to Jesus in the whole of the New Testament. Mary and Martha are rather more famous, incidentally. Not much to go on, is there, aside from the fact that he got ill, he died, and Jesus loved him. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, 'Lord, the one you love is sick.' This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. At the beginning of the chapter, we’re told: We don’t know much about Lazarus, other than what the passage tells us. The passage is long, so I won’t read all of it. You’ll find the story described in the story of Jesus’ life written by John, in Chapter 11 of that book. The story will be very familiar to many of you, so I will try to tell it in an interesting way. In order to tell you the story of Lazarus’ meeting with Jesus, I will have to tell you the story of his two sisters’ meeting with Jesus, too. I get to talk about another meeting Jesus had, when Jesus met Lazarus. This morning, Andrew Lingham talked about “When Jesus met Bartimaeus”. That’s not meant as a description of my talk, by the way. The purpose of the parable is to teach us the evil result of the unwise neglect of one’s opportunities: Lazarus was rewarded, not because he was poor, but for his virtuous acceptance of poverty the rich man was punished, not because he was rich, but for vicious neglect of the opportunities given him by his wealth.Hello and welcome to the Gathering, like weekly worship only darker and louder. It is also legendary that the sores of Lazarus were leprous. (2) The Meaning.- Catholic exegetes now commonly accept the story as a parable.

Lazarus is not allowed to leave the heavenly banquet and tend to the outcast. Lazarus partakes of the banquet in a place of honor (cf. (b) Their Condition Hereafter.-The earthly banquet is over the heavenly banquet is begun. The beggar had been cast helpless at the rich man’s gate, and lay there all covered with sores he yearned for the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, but received none, and was left to the dogs. fine linen), and spent each day in gay carousing.

LAZARUS OF THE PARABLE.-(I) The Story.-The dramatic story of the rich man and the beggar (only in Luke, xvi, 19-31) is set forth by Christ in two striking scenes: (a) Their Condition Here.-The rich man was clothed in purple and byssus (D. a character in one of Christ’s parables, and the brother of Martha and Mary of Bethania. Laxaros, a contraction of Eleazaros-see II Mach., vi, 18-meaning in Hebrew “ God hath helped”), the name of two persons in the N.

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