Lazarus

Mentioned in AD 33 traditional (Jones)

Mentioned in 4 verses, first in Luke 16:20.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

Tagged in: 4 verses

Mentioned in the era of the New Testament, 4 BC to AD 100.
Named in the same verses as Abraham.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Lazarus: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, AD 8–58, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Lazarus’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Lazarus in 4 tagged verses in one book.

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Luke4

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Lazarus 20
KJV	Lazarus 15
ASV	Lazarus 15

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 4 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Luke4 verses

16:20
And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
16:23
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
16:24
So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’
16:25
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.