20Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
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Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. …
And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-32)The matter being determined, that Christ will go to Judea, and his disciples with him, they address themselves to their journey; in this journey some circumstances happened which the other evangelists record, as the healing of the blind man at Jericho, and the conversion of Zaccheus. We must not reckon ourselves out of our way, while we are in the way of doing good; nor be so intent upon one good…
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