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MEMORIES OF BETHANY.
BY THE
REV. JOHN R. MACDUFF, D.D.
AUTHOR OF
“MORNING AND NIGHT WATCHES,” “WORDS OF JESUS,”“MIND OF JESUS,”
“FOOTSTEPS OF ST. PAUL,” “FAMILY PRAYERS,”
“MEMORIES OF GENNESARET,” “STORY OF BETHLEHEM,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,
No. 530 BROADWAY.
1861.
To Mourners in Zion, with whom Bethanyhas ever been a name consecrated to sorrow,these Memories are inscribed.
PASSAGES REFERRING TO BETHANY IN THE SACRED NARRATIVE.
I.
Earliest Notice of Bethany.
Luke X. 38-42.—“And He entered into a certain village: and a certainwoman named Martha received Him into her house. And she had a sistercalled Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard His word. ButMartha was cumbered about much serving, and came to Him, and said, Lord,dost Thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid hertherefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her,Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But onething is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall notbe taken away from her.”
II.
Bethany in connexion with the Sickness, Death, and Resurrection of Lazarus.
John XI. 1.—“Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany,the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was that[Pg vi]Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whosebrother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto Him, saying,Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that, Hesaid, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, thatthe Son of God might be glorified thereby. Now Jesus loved Martha, andher sister, and Lazarus. When He had heard therefore that he was sick,He abode two days still in the same place where He was.”
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