Eoghan
Puritan Board Senior
When you read the gospels none of the characters in a parable get a name - except Lazarus? Why?
Looked at chronologically (Gospel Harmony) this story comes immediately before Mary and Martha send for him because Lazarus was sick. I think that |Jesus was already thinking of |Lazarus and put him, or at least his name into the parable.
... after 3 decades as a \Christian I have finally noticed. Alexander Whyte also suggested that our Lord's tears were in part because Lazarus was four days "in Abraham's bosom" in Paradise - only to be called back to earth.
It is also interesting that Lazarus did not talk about his experience, build a ministry out of it or write a book.
Looked at chronologically (Gospel Harmony) this story comes immediately before Mary and Martha send for him because Lazarus was sick. I think that |Jesus was already thinking of |Lazarus and put him, or at least his name into the parable.
... after 3 decades as a \Christian I have finally noticed. Alexander Whyte also suggested that our Lord's tears were in part because Lazarus was four days "in Abraham's bosom" in Paradise - only to be called back to earth.
It is also interesting that Lazarus did not talk about his experience, build a ministry out of it or write a book.