"Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: {about...: that is, about two miles}" — John 11:18

John 11:18 · KJV

“Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: {about...: that is, about two miles}”

— John 11:18

Verse 17

Then when Jesus came, he found that he had {lain} in the grave four days already.

Verse 19

And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

John 11 — Context

Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

Then when Jesus came, he found that he had {lain} in the grave four days already.

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: {about...: that is, about two miles}

And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat {still} in the house.

Cross References

Luke 24:13

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem {about} threescore furlongs.

John 11:1

Now a certain {man} was sick, {named} Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Revelation 14:20

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand {and} six hundred furlongs.

Revelation 21:16

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

John 6:19

So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.