From Luke to John: Lazarus, Mary, and Martha in the Fourth Gospel

Here I examine John’s Raising of Lazarus and Anointing of Jesus texts and explore literary parallels with Luke’s Lazarus and Mary/Martha texts. I show first that there is a significant and orderly array of such parallels between the Luke and John texts, constituting strong evidence of inter-textual influence between Luke and John. I then show that this relationship is literary rather than oral, and that the literary dependence flows from Luke to John. This paper was not accepted for presentation by the panel moderator. Note 24 June 2021: I have just published an update to this 10 year old paper, entitled Gathered into One: Mary and Judas in 11-13, in the journal Novum Testamentum 62/3 (2021) 323-345. See the posting on this page at https://works.bepress.com/klyoder/51/ for my final author\u27s pre-publication manuscript and DOI information.Note 31 March 2022: my final update to this now 11 year old paper, now titled as One and the Same? Lazarus in Luke and John, has been published in Novum Testamentum 64/2 (2022) 184-209. Further information, DOI, and my final author\u27s pre-publication manuscript are posted on this page at https://works.bepress.com/klyoder/60/