KJV King James Version
There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
John 12:2
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.
WEB World English Bible
So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
ASV American Standard Version
So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;
Surrounding context — John 12
1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s [son], which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἐποίησανG4160 · poieōto do/make: doοὖνG3767 · ountherefore/thenαὐτῷG846 · autosit/s/heδεῖπνονG1173 · deipnondinnerἐκεῖ,G1563 · ekeithereκαὶG2532 · kaiandἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoΜάρθαG3136 · MarthaMarthaδιηκόνει·G1247 · diakoneōto serveὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoδὲG1161 · dethenΛάζαροςG2976 · LazarosLazarusεἷςG1520 · ehisoneἦνG1510 · eimito beἐκG1537 · ekout fromτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀνακειμένωνG345 · anakeimaito reclineσὺνG4862 · sunwithαὐτῷ.G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Revelation 3:20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.Luke 22:27For whether [is] greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? [is] not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.Luke 10:38-42Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.Mark 14:3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured [it] on his head.John 12:9-10Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.Matthew 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,Luke 12:37Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.John 11:43-44And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.Luke 14:12Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor [thy] rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.Luke 5:29And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.Song of Solomon 4:16Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
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