Some speculate that the same Lazarus that Jesus raised from the dead (John 11) was the same Lazarus who went to Paradise after he died and was in the “bosom of Abraham” and that Jesus could have brought him back to life. There is no reason to believe that this is the same Lazarus who is the brother of Martha and Mary and even though there is some speculation that they are one and the same, since both died, there is really no nearness of these two separate accounts in the chronological order in which these two Lazarus’ were mentioned in the gospels of Luke and John. He typically says “now the master’s servants” or something like that but here in this parable, Jesus gives a specific name the name of the poor, beggar Lazarus who entered Paradise but the Rich Man didn’t. Jesus doesn’t customarily use names of real people in parables. The story of Lazarus and the Rich Man was given by Jesus in Luke 16:19-31 but nowhere does Jesus say that this is a parable. The Lazarus I will write about is the brother of Martha and Mary as we shall later read. Lazarus’ name comes from the Greek word “Lazaros” and means “whom God helps” and it is a form of the Hebrew name Eleazar which is from the Hebrew word “’El`azar” and means something very similar “God has helped” so Lazarus name essentially means “whom God helps” or “God has helped.” Elazar was the third son of Aaron the first high priest of Israel and he was the successor of his father as Israel’s high priest.
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