There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
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Gill's Exposition
There they made him a supper,.... At Bethany, in the house of Lazarus, Martha, and Mary; by whose order, and at whose charge it was prepared for him; and not in the house of Simon the leper, which was…
See this passage explained in the notes at Mat 26:3-16. Joh 12:2 A supper - At the house of Simon the leper, Mat 26:6. Lazarus was ... - The names of Martha and Lazarus are mentioned because it was…
In these verses we have,
I. The kind visit our Lord Jesus paid to his friends at Bethany, Joh 12:1. He came up out of the country, six days before the passover, and took up at Bethany, a town which,…
Cambridge Bible
The Devotion of Mary
2. they made him a supper -They" is indefinite: if we had only this account we should suppose that the supper was in the house of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus; but S. Mark (Mar 14:3)…
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