Lk 7:45

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gavest.

Gen 29:11; Gen 33:4; 2Sam 15:5; 2Sam 19:39; Matt 26:48; Rom 16:16; 1Cor 16:20

1Th 5:26

this.

Many have supposed that this person was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the sister of Lazarus.

But there is no indication in the gospel history, that Mary Magdalene was the sister of Lazarus; but on the contrary, it would appear that they were perfectly distinct persons, the sister of Lazarus residing at Bethany, while Mary Magdalene appears to have resided at Magdala, east of Jordan, a distance of nearly ninety miles.

Add to this, that our Saviour seems to have been now in or near Nain, not at Bethany; and the woman appears from the recital to have been previously unknown to him.