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Title: Memories of Bethany

Author: John Ross Macduff

Release Date: October 3, 2008 [EBook #26760]

Language: English

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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
BETHANY
has 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 certain
woman named Martha received Him into her house. And she had a sister
called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard His word. But
Martha 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 her
therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her,
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one
thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not
be 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_ Mary which
anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His f