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Martha and Mary
[People]Martha and Mary are sisters from Bethany who appear in the New Testament; their brother was Lazarus. They are known for welcoming Jesus into their home, for the raising of Lazarus, and for Mary's anointing of Jesus with ointment.
Lazarus
[People]Lazarus was a man of Bethany mentioned in the Gospel of John and the brother of Martha and Mary. He is known as the man whom Jesus raised from the dead four days after his death.
John 11:25–26
[Bible Verses]The passage in which Jesus, after the death of Lazarus, tells Martha, "I am the resurrection, and the life." It is one of the "I am" declarations in the Gospel of John and is the passage most frequently read at Christian funeral services.
Bethany
[Bible]Bethany was a village on the slope of the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. In the Gospels it appears as the home of Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary, and as the place where Jesus stayed during Holy Week.
Luke 10
[Bible]Luke 10 is the chapter in which Jesus sends out the seventy, two by two, to proclaim the kingdom of God. It also contains the parable of the Good Samaritan, which arises from a conversation with a lawyer, and the account of Martha and Mary.
Mary Magdalene
[People]Mary Magdalene was a female disciple who followed Jesus from the time of his Galilean ministry. All four Gospels record that she witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus and the empty tomb, and the Gospel of John presents her as the first person to meet the risen Jesus.
Raising of Lazarus
[Bible]The raising of Lazarus is an event recorded in John 11, in which Jesus, at Bethany, raised Lazarus from the tomb after he had been dead four days. It is commonly regarded as the last and greatest of the signs in the Gospel of John.
Luke 11
[Bible]Luke 11 is the chapter in which Jesus teaches his disciples the Lord's Prayer and persistent prayer, addresses the Beelzebub controversy and the sign of Jonah, and then rebukes the Pharisees and lawyers.
Diakonia
[Bible]Diakonia is a Greek word meaning "service," "ministry," or "office." In the New Testament it refers collectively to the service of Jesus, almsgiving, the ministry of the word, and church office.
Mattathias
[People]Mattathias (Korean Common Translation: Mattadia) was a Jewish priest who lived in Modein in the second century BC. He launched the Maccabean Revolt against the religious persecution of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV and was the father of Judas Maccabeus.
Malcolm Fenwick
[People]Malcolm C. Fenwick (1863–1935) was a Canadian independent missionary. In 1906 he founded the Church of Christ in Corea (Daehan Gidokgyohoe), the parent body of the Korea Baptist Convention, at Ganggyeong, South Chungcheong Province, and he is regarded as the founder of the Baptist church in Korea.