And they showed us also a large "Fountain of Lazarus," and in the centre of the village the ancient dwelling of Lazarus.

Lazarus appears to have been a man of property.

The legends of the Sunday Schools do him great injustice; they give one the impression that he was poor.

It is because they get him confused with that Lazarus who had no merit but his virtue, and virtue never has been as respectable as money.

The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story.