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In the '' Gospel Of John '', Mary of Bethany ( Hebrew '''מרים''' '''Miryām''', ''Miryam'' "Bitter"), the sister of Lazarus appears in connection with the visits of Jesus to Bethany and the death and resurrection of her brother Lazarus ('' John '' 11:20,31,33). In the '''' (1910) states that " there is no suggestion of an identification of the three persons (the "sinner", Mary Magdalen , and Mary of Bethany), and if we had only St. Luke to guide us we should certainly have no grounds for so identifying them." The Catholic authors go on to adduce the gloss to ''John'' 11.12, "Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill." Thus the Johannine tradition explicitly identified Mary sister of Lazarus with the unidentified "sinner" in the house of the Pharisee. Western tradition as early as the 3rd century further identified the woman who was a sinner as Mary Magdalene. Easton (1897) noted that it would appear from the circumstances that the family of Lazarus possessed a family vault (11:38) and that a large number of Jews from Jerusalem came to condole with them on the death of Lazarus (11:19), that this family at Bethany belonged to the wealthier class of the people. On the occasion of Jesus's last visit to Bethany, an unidentified woman who brought "a pound of ointment of , this Mary sister of Lazarus, and "the sinner" of Luke 7:36–50. To Protestants , nothing more is known of her. In folk Catholicism , this Mary is also Saint Mary Magdalene , of whom both the Bible and legends apart from it tell more. EXTERNAL LINKS
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