If you take the tour, you walk past gift shops and a house that probably isn’t really “The Home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary”. Higher up there is the narrow entrance to the tomb. Richard Beard points out there’s no wheelchair access.
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Richard Beard: Lazarus Is Dead (Harvill Secker)
Lazarus’s tomb is in Bethany, a town now associated with al-Eizariya a mile outside of Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives.
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