John 12:2
Good News Translation
They prepared a dinner for him there, which Martha helped serve; Lazarus was one of those who were sitting at the table with Jesus.

New Revised Standard Version
There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

Contemporary English Version
A meal had been prepared for Jesus. Martha was doing the serving, and Lazarus himself was there.

New American Bible
They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him.

they made.

Songs 4:16 Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.

Songs 5:1 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Luke 5:29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a great company of publicans and of others that were at table with them.

Luke 14:12 And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren nor thy kinsmen nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him: and he with me.

Martha.

Matthew 26:6 And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

Mark 14:3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

Luke 10:38-42 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. . . .

Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

Luke 22:27 For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, as he that serveth.

Lazarus.

John 12:9,10 A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. . . .

John 11:43,44 When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. . . .

Context
Mary Anoints Jesus
1Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. 2And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him. 3Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.…
Cross References
Luke 10:38
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

Luke 10:40
But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said: Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? Speak to her therefore, that she help me.

Luke 10:41
And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful and art troubled about many things:

John 12:1
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