Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Beggar (ptwxov). Original meaning of this old word. See on Matthew 5:3. The name Lazarus is from Eleazarov, "God a help," and was a common one. Lazar in English means one afflicted with a pestilential disease.
Was laid (ebeblhto). Past perfect passive of the common verb ballw. He had been flung there and was still there, "as if contemptuous roughness is implied" (Plummer).
At his gate (prov ton pulwna autou). Right in front of the large portico or gateway, not necessarily a part of the grand house, porch in Matthew 26:71.
Full of sores (eilkwmenov). Perfect passive participle of elkow, to make sore, to ulcerate, from elkov, ulcer (Latin ulcus). See use of elkov in verse Luke 16:21. Common in Hippocrates and other medical writers. Here only in the N.T.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 5:3
Luke 6:25
John 5:7
John 11:1
Revelation 21:12
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