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约翰福音 12:1

馬利亞用香膏膏主(太26:6~13;可14:3~9;路7:37~39)逾越節前六天,耶穌到了伯大尼,就是拉撒路所住的地方;耶穌曾經使這拉撒路從死人中復活。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bethany;   Hospitality;   Jesus, the Christ;   Lazarus;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bethany;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Simon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bethany;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Death of Christ;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgment, Last;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bethany;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Banquet;   Hour;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus Christ;   John, Gospel of;   Lazarus;   Martha;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Anointing (2);   Bethany ;   Dates (2);   Eschatology;   Guest-Chamber;   Home (2);   Martha ;   Mary;   Mount of Olives ;   Passion Week;   Premeditation;   Preparation ;   Property (2);   Purim;   Sabbath ;   Sisters;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethany ;   Lazarus ;   Martha ;   Mary, Sister of Lazarus and Martha;   Simon ;   Song of Solomon;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bethany;   Martha;   Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lazarus;   Martha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of;   Si'mon;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mary;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - John, Gospel of;   Joy;   Lazarus;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Martha;   Mary;   Olives, Mount of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bethany;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
逾 越 节 前 六 日 , 耶 稣 来 到 伯 大 尼 , 就 是 他 叫 拉 撒 路 从 死 里 复 活 之 处 。

Contextual Overview

1 Six days before the Passover Feast, Jesus went to Bethany, where Lazarus lived. (Lazarus is the man Jesus raised from the dead.) 2 There they had a dinner for Jesus. Martha served the food, and Lazarus was one of the people eating with Jesus. 3 Mary brought in a pint of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She poured the perfume on Jesus' feet, and then she wiped his feet with her hair. And the sweet smell from the perfume filled the whole house. 4 Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' followers who would later turn against him, was there. Judas said, 5 "This perfume was worth an entire year's wages. Why wasn't it sold and the money given to the poor?" 6 But Judas did not really care about the poor; he said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the money box, and he often stole from it. 7 Jesus answered, "Leave her alone. It was right for her to save this perfume for today, the day for me to be prepared for burial. 8 You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me." 9 A large crowd of people heard that Jesus was in Bethany. So they went there to see not only Jesus but Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead. 10 So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus, too.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

six: John 11:55

Bethany: John 11:1, John 11:44, Matthew 21:17, Mark 11:11, Luke 24:50

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:3 - in the tenth Matthew 8:15 - and ministered Matthew 26:2 - the feast Matthew 26:6 - in Bethany Mark 14:3 - being Luke 10:38 - a certain Luke 21:37 - the day time John 6:4 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you."
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through that land as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.
Genesis 12:10
At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.
Genesis 12:11
Just before they arrived in Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know you are a very beautiful woman.
Genesis 15:7
God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."
Nehemiah 9:7
"You are the Lord , the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur in Babylonia and named him Abraham.
Isaiah 41:9
I took you from places far away on the earth and called you from a faraway country. I said, ‘You are my servants.' I have chosen you and have not turned against you.
Isaiah 51:2
Look at Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your ancestors. Abraham had no children when I called him, but I blessed him and gave him many descendants.
Ezekiel 33:24
"Human, people who live in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying: ‘Abraham was only one person, yet he was given the land as his own. Surely the land has been given to us, who are many, as our very own.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Jesus, six days before the passover,.... Or "before the six days of the passover"; not as designing the days of that feast, for they were seven; but as reckoning so many days back from it, that is, before the sixth day from the ensuing passover: if there were six complete days between this and the passover, as this way of speaking seems to imply; then this must be the day before the Jewish sabbath, and this is more likely, than that Christ should travel on the sabbath day: but if this was the sixth day before it, it was their sabbath day, and so at the going out of it in the evening, a supper was made for him, which with the Jews on that night, was a plentiful one; for they remembered the sabbath in its going out, as well as in its coming in e, and this was to prevent grief at the going out of it: so some days before the passover, the lamb was separated from the flock, and kept up till the fourteenth day, Exodus 12:3 particularly it may be observed, that seven days before the day of atonement, the high priest was separated from his own house, and had to the chamber Palhedrin f; and much such a space of time there was, between the day of the great atonement by Christ, and his unction by Mary; which is said to be against the day of his burial, which being the same day with his sufferings, was the great day of atonement: at this time Jesus

came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead; the last clause is left out in the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions:

whom he raised from the dead; that is, "Jesus", as the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions express; and the Ethiopic version adds, "in Bethany". This was the town of Lazarus; here he lived, and here he died, and here he was raised from the dead; and here he continued and dwelt, after his resurrection; and hither Christ came to see him, and the rest of the family, though he knew he exposed himself to danger in so doing.

e Maimon. Hilchot Sabbat. c. 29. sect. 1. 11, 12, 29. f Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then Jesus came to Bethany - This was near to Jerusalem, and it was from this place that he made his triumphant entry into the city. See the notes at Matthew 21:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XII.

Jesus sups at the house of Lazarus, and Mary anoints his feet,

1-3.

Judas Iscariot finds fault, and reproves her, 4-6.

Jesus vindicates Mary and reproves Judas, 7, 8.

The chief priests consult to put Lazarus to death, because that

through him many believed on Jesus, 9-11.

He enters Jerusalem in triumph; the people meet him, and the

Pharisees are troubled, 12-19.

Greeks inquire after Jesus, 20-22.

Our Lord's discourse on the subject, 23-26.

Speaks of his passion, and is answered by a voice from heaven,

27, 28.

The people are astonished at the voice, and Jesus explains it

to them, and foretells his death, 29-33.

They question him concerning the perpetuity of the Messiah, and

he instructs them, 34-36.

Many believe not; and in them the saying of Isaiah is fulfilled,

37-41.

Some of the chief rulers believe, but are afraid to confess him,

42, 43.

He proclaims himself the light of the world, and shows the

danger of rejecting his words, 44-50.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII.

Verse John 12:1. Six days before the Passover — Reckoning the day of the Passover to be the last of the six. Our Lord came on our Sabbath, the first day of the Jewish week, to Bethany, where he supped; and on the next day he made his public entry into Jerusalem: John 12:12. Calmet thinks that this was about two months after the resurrection of Lazarus, on the 9th of Nisan, (March 29), in the thirty-sixth year of our Lord's age. It has been observed before-that Calmet adds three years to the common account.


 
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