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Jerome testifies: 'Bethany is a village at the second milestone from Aelia, on the slope of the Mount of Olives, where the Savior raised Lazarus to life, to which event the church now built there bears witness' (Onom. The site of the ancient village may not precisely coincide with the present one, but there is every reason to believe that it was in this general location. The identification of this cave as the tomb of Lazarus is merely possible it has no strong intrinsic or extrinsic authority. It is quite certain that the present village formed about the traditional tomb of Lazarus, which is in a cave in the village. Some believe that the present village of Bethany does not occupy the site of the ancient village but that it grew up around the traditional cave which they suppose to have been at some distance from the house of Martha and Mary in the village Zanecchia (La Palestine d'aujourd'hui, 1899, I, 445f.) places the site of the ancient village of Bethany higher up on the southeastern slope of the Mount of Olives, not far from the accepted site of Bethphage, and near that of the Ascension.

The initial letter of the name Lazarus is elided in Arabic after the l of the article. The modern name of the village is el-æAzariye, so called from the memory of Lazarus. The Talmud derives the name from Beit-Hine, or Betæuni, 'House of Dates'. The most accepted etymology of the name is Beit-æAniaæ, 'House of Misery'. Here Jesus often received hospitality in the house of his friends, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus and near this village Jesus ascended into Heaven. It is not mentioned in the Old Testament in the New Testament it comes into prominence as the Village of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, and as the scene of the great miracle of the raising of Lazarus to life by Jesus. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.Ī village of Palestine, fifteen furlongs, or one mile and three-quarters, east of Jerusalem, at the base of the southwestern slope of the Mount of Olives.

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