![]() (You can imagine that Jesus was accompanied by an entourage, too, all of whom also needed to eat and wash and sit.) She was determined to do her duties well for such an esteemed guest as Jesus, but she wasn’t a doormat. She was just pointing out that people needed to eat and wash and sit, and somebody’s efforts had to make that happen. She also wanted to hear him speak she was also his disciple and believed in him. ![]() She wasn’t saying nobody should value hearing him teach. In Martha’s mind and in her culture, these were her duties, and her performance of them comprised her reputation, value, and trustworthiness as a member of her culture - in a society that valued hospitality quite highly, that in fact didn’t even work as a society without hospitality as a huge part of the glue that held it together. It’s not that Martha had no imagination or faith or respect or that she was too small-minded to want to sit at Christ’s feet, too. But we need to understand this in context. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:41, NIV)Ĭhrist’s point is that in the grand scheme of things, your eternal soul is more important than social conventions and what people think about your housekeeping. “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed-or indeed only one. Martha pointed out that Mary wasn’t pitching in. ![]() She cooked and cleaned and catered while her sister Mary sat at Christ’s feet and listened to him speak. The Gospel of Luke tells us how Martha invited Jesus to her home in Bethany. “Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.” Martha in Scripture Woodcut by Jacobus de Man, haven’t tracked down the specific publication yet, but it’s late 1600s, early 1700s and public domain. ![]()
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