Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
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Alcuin of York
AD 804
And as there were many women of this name, He distinguishes her by her well-known act: It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick
