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New Defender's Study Bible Notes

11:18 nigh unto Jerusalem. Bethany is about two miles from Jerusalem, on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives and on the road from Jerusalem down to Jericho and the Jordan River. Its modern name is an Arabic term meaning “The Place of Lazarus.”


11:18 furlongs. See note on Luke 24:13.


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