Now some time after these things happened, Joseph was told, “Your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him [to go to Goshen].

In those days [when Sennacherib first invaded Judah] Hezekiah became deathly ill. The prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not recover.’”

During that time it happened that she became sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upstairs room.

Lazarus

Now Jesus loved and was concerned about Martha and her sister and Lazarus [and considered them dear friends].

So they gave a supper for Him there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

And a poor man named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, covered with sores.

Bethany

Six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom He had raised from the dead.

Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

When they were nearing Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of His disciples,

Mary

Now while they were on their way, Jesus entered a village [called Bethany], and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.