Bethany Attractions El-Azariya
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The Arab village of El-Azariya (or Eizariya), which has grown in the last few years from a small hamlet, lies on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives. It is the Bethany of the New Testament.
History
Bethany was the home of the two sisters Martha and Mary who "received Jesus into their house" (Luke 10,38), when he brought their brother Lazarus back from the dead (John 11,11-45). When Christ traveled for the last time from Jericho to Jerusalem, where he was to suffer his Passion, he visited the house of Lazarus and his sisters six days before the Passover, and Mary anointed his feet (John 12,1-4); then on the next day he rode over the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem, mounted on an ass from Bethphage.
History
Bethany was the home of the two sisters Martha and Mary who "received Jesus into their house" (Luke 10,38), when he brought their brother Lazarus back from the dead (John 11,11-45). When Christ traveled for the last time from Jericho to Jerusalem, where he was to suffer his Passion, he visited the house of Lazarus and his sisters six days before the Passover, and Mary anointed his feet (John 12,1-4); then on the next day he rode over the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem, mounted on an ass from Bethphage.
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