39And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
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Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-42)We may observe in this story, I. The entertainment which Martha gave to Christ and his disciples at her house, Luke 10:38. Observe, 1. Christ’s coming to the village where Martha lived: As they went (Christ and his disciples together), he and they with him entered into a certain village . This village was Bethany , nigh to Jerusalem, whither Christ was now going up, and he took this in his way. No…
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