The Augustana Church was the direct parent to several liberal arts colleges in the United States: Augustana College in Rock Island, IL ; Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN ; Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS ; California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, CA ; Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, NE ; and Upsala College in East Orange, NJ.

* Parkhurst, Louis Gifford, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers ( 1996 ).

In 1879, the town was platted with the name of Bethany.

Their tragedy was too much for Alison and, after kidnapping then returning Sarah-Lou Platt's newborn baby Bethany, she committed suicide by stepping in front of a lorry, leaving Kevin devastated.

Mary of Bethany was the sister of Lazarus and Martha.

Though some earlier interpreters blended the person of Mary of Bethany with Mary Magdalene and the sinful woman of Luke 7: 36-50, current scholars believe she was a different person .< ref >" Mary & Martha: Friends of Jesus.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

The Mary appearing in Bethany is introduced in only by her first name, as if her identity was self-evident.

He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

In the West she was identified with Martha of Bethany ; in the East she was called Berenike, or Beronike, the name appearing in as early a work as the " Acta Pilati ", the most ancient form of which goes back to the fourth century.

Rabanus states that Joseph of Arimathea was sent to Britain, and he goes on to detail who travelled with him as far as France, claiming that he was accompanied by " the two Bethany sisters, Mary and Martha, Lazarus ( who was raised from the dead ), St. Eutropius, St. Salome, St. Cleon, St. Saturnius, St. Mary Magdalen, Marcella ( the maid of the Bethany sisters ), St. Maxium or Maximin, St.

Southern Nazarene University, which was founded by the Church of the Nazarene, is a university located in suburban Bethany, which is surrounded by Oklahoma City.

The Brethren were also instrumental in establishing the Christian Rural Overseas Program ( CROP ), which was originally housed at Bethany Biblical Seminary, the Brethren Seminary in Chicago.

Virginia Delta was chartered at Bethany College in 1859.

After the Civil War, Bethany College was in West Virginia, but the chapter remained Virginia Delta.

A Ph. D. degree was awarded to Bethany K. Dumas in May 1971 after she completed " A Study of the Dialect of Newton County, Arkansas.

Jay and Silent Bob fill out their roles as prophets: they predict the arrival of Rufus ( Chris Rock ), the thirteenth apostle, who was left out of the Bible because he was black ; they lead the others to former muse Serendipity ( Salma Hayek ); they procure the divine instrument that will stop Azrael ; Jay reveals the location of God (" John Doe Jersey "); and ultimately, though inadvertently, they provide Bethany with the solution to preventing Armageddon.

The town was incorporated in 1871 on lands carved from the neighboring towns of Bethany, Seymour, Naugatuck and Oxford.

Bethany was first settled in 1717, but it was not until May 1832 that Bethany separated from Woodbridge to become incorporated as a town.

As part of the Amity school system, Woodbridge shares a middle school with the town of Bethany, which is located north of Woodbridge.

Bethany Beach is located at ( 38. 540807 ,-75. 061771 ).

South Bethany is located at ( 38. 515415 ,-75. 057969 ).

Bethany is located at ( 39. 644685 ,-88. 739109 ).

It is in the center of the state near the Macon County line, located along Route 121 at its intersection with Route 128 and between the larger villages of Bethany and Mount Zion.

Bethany is located at ( 39. 533225 ,-86. 376617 ).

* Bethany Lutheran Cemetery is located in the southeast corner of the southwest quadrant of section 11 of the township.

Bethany is located at ( 40. 266579 ,-94. 034005 ).

In 1886 Bob Hardison, after discussing it with his friend Bob Bowden decided to apply to the U. S. Postal Department for a Post office to be located at “ Bethany Crossroads ” in Pamlico County.

It is located at the western end of Cedar Mill and southeastern end of the Bethany area.

Bethany is located at ( 41. 614321 ,-75. 288537 ).

Prior to Clover's founding, Bethany and Bethel, communities located a few miles west and east, respectively, were primary population centers in northern York District, with well-established Presbyterian churches, post offices and stores.

The schools located in the Clover School District include Bethel Elementary School, Bethany Elementary School, Griggs Road Elementary School, Kinard Elementary School, Crowders Creek Elementary School, Larne Elementary School ( named after Clover's Sister City, Larne, Northern Ireland ), Clover Middle School, Oakridge Middle School, Knox Street School, and Clover High School.

Bethany is located at ( 40. 206423 ,-80. 559621 ).

The official Foundation building is located in Bethany, Connecticut, and " includes a central research and archival storage center to accommodate the Foundation's art collections, library and archives, and offices, as well as residence studios for visiting artists.

International offices were once located in Franklin Springs, Georgia, but are now located in Bethany, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City.

Sydney Technical High School, Bethany College and St. Mary's Star of the Sea are located just over the border in Bexley.

Both stories are also located in Bethany.

There are two institutions located adjacent to the Earlham College undergraduate campus: Earlham School of Religion, a Quaker theological graduate school and Bethany Theological Seminary, an independent Church of the Brethren institution offering graduate and non-degree programs.

Bethany College is a private, liberal arts college located in Bethany, West Virginia, United States.

Bethany has traditionally been identified with the present-day West Bank city of al-Eizariya ( Arabic ( العيزرية ), meaning " Place of Lazarus "), site of the reputed Tomb of Lazarus, located about to the east of Jerusalem on the south-eastern slope of the Mount of Olives.

The modern Bethany Presbyterian Church sits on the southeast side of the crossroads.

Neighboring towns are Bethany to the north, Hamden to the east, New Haven to the southeast, Orange to the south, and Derby, Ansonia, and Seymour to the west.

Whereas Bethphage is probably to be identified with At-Tur, located on the peak of the Mount of Olives with a magnificent view of Jerusalem, Bethany lay below to the southeast, out of view of the Temple Mount, which may have made its location suitable as a place for care of the sick, " out of view " of the Temple.