"Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary (also referred to as Christ in the House of Martha and by other variant names) refers to an episode in the life of Jesus which appears only in Luke's Gospel (), and can be read immediately after the Parable of the Good Samaritan (). Jesus visits the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary of Bethany, the latter typically conflated in Catholic medieval tradition with Mary Magdalene, though the New Testament probably means a different person. According to the Gospel of Luke: As Jesus and"
"Martha Martha of Bethany (Aramaic: מַרְתָּא ""Martâ"") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus resurrecting her brother, Lazarus. The name ""Martha"" is a Latin transliteration of the Koine Greek Μάρθα, itself a translation of the Aramaic מַרְתָּא ""Martâ"", ""The mistress"" or ""the lady"", from מרה ""mistress"", feminine of מר ""master"". The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatean inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum; it is"
"Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the sister of Lazarus. The specific question ""Quem quaeritis?"" ""Whom do you seek?"" is not in fact in Luke 24, where it is implied but omitted: ""Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen"". The actual question is directly expressed only in the non-canonical Gospel of Peter: In the canonical gospels it is Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary (the mother of James), and ""other women"" who were present at this event. Although short, this excerpt of text would later snowball into a huge body of religious medieval plays,"
"of Jesus, in the New Testament, and also giving rise to the legend that made her a model of a penitent sinner and even, according to Pope Gregory, a reformed prostitute. This view, which was taken to its extreme in ""Legenda Aurea"" (c. 1260), is no longer affirmed by the Roman Catholic Church but remains in popular devotion. Her feast day is July 22, and is celebrated then by the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches and by the Church of England. Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, lived with them in Bethany, near Jerusalem. Jesus visited them there on"
"Mary of Bethany Mary of Bethany (Judeo-Aramaic מרים, ""Maryām"", rendered Μαρία, Maria, in the Koine Greek of the New Testament; form of Hebrew , Miryām, or Miriam, ""wished for child"", ""bitter"" or ""rebellious"") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of John and Luke in the Christian New Testament. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Martha, she is described by John as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem; in Luke only the two sisters, living in an unnamed village, are mentioned. Most Christian commentators have been ready to assume that the two sets of sisters named as"
"the ""Life of Christ"". Literary works about Martha include: ""The Sons of Martha"", a poem by Rudyard Kipling; ""Martha and Mary"", a story in Karel Čapek's ""Apocryphal Tales""; and Charles Causley's poem ""Martha & the Dragon"", which can be found in his collected works. Martha Martha of Bethany (Aramaic: מַרְתָּא ""Martâ"") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus resurrecting her brother, Lazarus. The name ""Martha"" is a Latin transliteration"
"Bethany, where Martha and Mary dwelt [according to John's Gospel]"". but the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges claims that it was ""undoubtedly Bethany"". In the Gospel of John, Martha and Mary appear in connection with two incidents: the raising from the dead of their brother Lazarus (John 11) and the anointing of Jesus in Bethany (John 12:3). In the account of the raising of Lazarus, Jesus meets with the sisters in turn: Martha followed by Mary. Martha goes immediately to meet Jesus as he arrives, while Mary waits until she is called. As one commentator notes, ""Martha, the more"
"Bethany Bethany () is recorded in the New Testament as the home of the siblings Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, as well as that of Simon the Leper. Jesus is reported to have lodged there after his entry into Jerusalem, and it could be from Bethany that he parted from his disciples at the Ascension. Bethany is located at the site now also known by the Arabic name ""al-Eizariya"". Bethany has traditionally been identified with the present-day West Bank city of al-Eizariya (Arabic ""place of Lazarus""), site of the reputed Tomb of Lazarus, about to the east of Jerusalem on the"
"Judea, were mutually hostile with Jews. In Luke and John, Jesus extends his ministry to Samaritans. In Luke (10:38–42), Mary, sister of Lazarus, is contrasted with her sister Martha, who was ""cumbered about many things"" while Jesus was their guest, while Mary had chosen ""the better part,"" that of listening to the master's discourse. John names her as the ""one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair"" (11:2). In Luke, an unidentified ""sinner"" in the house of a Pharisee anoints Jesus' feet. In Medieval Catholic folklore, Mary, the sister of Lazarus, was"
"of the raising of Lazarus, Jesus meets with the sisters in turn: Martha followed by Mary. Martha goes immediately to meet Jesus as he arrives, while Mary waits until she is called. As one commentator notes, ""Martha, the more aggressive sister, went to meet Jesus, while quiet and contemplative Mary stayed home. This portrayal of the sisters agrees with that found in ."" When Mary meets Jesus, she falls at his feet. In speaking with Jesus, both sisters lament that he did not arrive in time to prevent their brother's death: ""Lord, if you had been here, my brother would"
"Martha became ill, they sent for Jesus. For some undisclosed reason, Jesus did not arrive until four days after Lazarus died. The grieving sisters, Martha first and then Mary, met Jesus. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and then proclaimed himself as ""the resurrection and the life."" Martha gently reproached Jesus, ""Lord, had you been here, my brother would not have died."" She hastened to express full confidence that God would grant whatever Jesus asked him to grant. Martha reflected a spiritual understanding beyond that required for preparing and serving a meal. Apparently, Martha and not just Mary had benefited"
"at least two occasions. ""Mary and Martha"" are mentioned by name in John 11:1–12:8 and in Luke 10:38–41. Three other passages, one each in Matthew, Mark and Luke, refer to an unnamed person identified by some but by no means all authorities as this Mary, or as Mary Magdalene, or both. Roman Catholic tradition in particular identifies the person in Luke with both Mary of Bethany and Saint Mary Magdalene. John describes two visits by Jesus to Mary and Martha. In , Jesus raises Mary's brother Lazarus from death. Mary, Martha and Lazarus already appear to be very close friends"
"aggressive sister, went to meet Jesus, while quiet and contemplative Mary stayed home. This portrayal of the sisters agrees with that found in Luke 10:38–42."" In speaking with Jesus, both sisters lament that he did not arrive in time to prevent their brother's death: ""Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died"". But where Jesus' response to Mary is more emotional, his response to Martha is one of teaching calling her to hope and faith: As the narrative continues, Martha calls her sister Mary to see Jesus. Jesus has Mary bring him to Lazarus' tomb where"
"church commemorates her together with Martha and Lazarus on 29 July. Mary, the wife of Clopas, is named only once in the New Testament, in , where she is listed as one of four women standing by the Cross, the others being Mary the mother of Jesus, her sister (or perhaps cousin, the Aramaic words being the same), and Mary Magdalene. An alternative reading is that the list is of only three women, and that Mary of Clopas is also the sister (or cousin) of Mary the mother of Jesus, as some traditions maintain. The passage could also be interpreted"
"Gospel of Luke differs from Matthew and Mark at two points. It lists ""Judas the son of James"" instead of ""Thaddeus"". (For more information, see Jude the Apostle.) Unlike the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John does not offer a formal list of apostles. Although it refers to ""the Twelve"" (), the gospel does not present any elaboration of who these twelve actually were, and the author of the Gospel of John does not mention them all by name. There is also no separation of the terms ""apostles"" and ""disciples"" in John. In Luke (10:38–42), Mary, sister of Lazarus, is"
"of kings. And her father was named Cyrus, and her mother Eucharis. She with her brother Lazarus, and her sister Martha, possessed the castle of Magdala, which is two miles from Nazareth, and Bethany, the castle which is nigh to Jerusalem, and also a great part of Jerusalem, which, all these things they departed among them. In such wise that Mary had the castle Magdala, whereof she had her name Magdalene. And Lazarus had the part of the city of Jerusalem, and Martha had to her part Bethany. And when Mary gave herself to all delights of the body, and"
"this story could not have occurred only a few days before the crucifixion, due to the numerous events that followed in Luke's gospel. John 12:1-8 names her Mary, and the text assumes her to be Mary, a sister to Lazarus, as it also identifies her sister Martha. The iconography of the woman's act has traditionally been associated with Mary Magdalene, but there is no biblical text identifying her as such (she is mentioned by name for the first time, immediately following this episode, at the beginning of Luke chapter 8). According to the Gospel of Mark 14:3, the perfume in"
"Sarah Sarah or Sara is a matriarch in the Hebrew Bible, who was the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac. She was also Abraham's sister or his half–sister. The Hebrew name ""Sarah"" can be translated as ""noblewoman"". In the early and middle 20th century, leading archaeologists such as William F. Albright and biblical scholars such as Albrecht Alt believed that the patriarchs and matriarchs were either real individuals or believable composites of people who lived in the ""patriarchal age"", the 2nd millennium BCE. But, in the 1970s, new arguments concerning Israel's past and the biblical texts challenged these"
"(Quran 37: 120). The Quran also says that people called ‘Isa's mother Maryam (, Mary) a ""sister of Harun"" (Quran 19: 28). Muslim scholars debated as to who exactly this ""Harun"" was in terms of his historical persona, with some saying that it was a reference to Aaron of the Exodus, and the term ""sister"" designating only a metaphorical or spiritual link between the two figures, all the more evident when Mary was a descendant of the priestly lineage of Aaron, while others held it to be another righteous man living at the time of Christ by the name of"
"Josephine Lazarus Josephine Lazarus (23 March 1846 - 1910) was an American essayist, book critic, transcendentalist, and Zionist. Lazarus was born March 23, 1846, in New York City, the daughter of Moses and Esther (Nathan) Lazarus. The first piece of work to bring her into prominent notice was the biographical sketch of her sister, Emma Lazarus, which first appeared in ""The Century Magazine"", October, 1888, and was afterward prefixed to “The Poems of Emma Lazarus” (New York and Boston, 1889). Between 1890 and 1893 she wrote articles on Marie Bashkirtseff in ""Scribner's Magazine"" and on Louisa May Alcott and Margaret"
"this claim as being without evidence. Women in the Gospels were usually identified with husbands or male relatives, especially if they shared their names with others. For example, there are many mentions of women called ""Mary"", all designated differently (any possible identification with each other nonwithstanding). There is Mary ""the mother of Jesus"", Mary Magdalene, Mary ""the mother of James and Joses"", Mary ""[the mother] of James"", ""the other"" Mary, Mary ""the wife of Cl[e]opas"" and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Lazarus and Martha. Mary Magdalene stands out from most of the other Marys as she is not directly"
"While speaking about Mary, the mother of Jesus, the Quran also calls her as the sister of Aaron. There is an Aaron in the Bible, namely Aaron the brother of Moses, who also had a sister Miriam. According to Muslim interpreters, this Aaron is different from the brother of Moses. Moses and Jesus were separated far apart in time, but it was a tradition to give people the names of prophets and pious persons who lived before them as mentioned in the following hadeeth: In the Books of Samuel, Hannah is grateful that God gave her a son, Samuel. She"
"of the river Jordan. The evangelist's introduction of Lazarus of Bethany at this point (John 11:1) leads to the discussion of whether Jesus should return to Judea (Jerusalem) in the face of the growing plot against Him. Mary and her sister Martha appear to have been better known than their brother Lazarus, as he is introduced by reference to them. Theologian Joseph Benson therefore suggests that ""It is probable [that] Lazarus was younger than his sisters"". The sisters send messengers to Jesus, so his location cannot have been entirely secret, ""firmly expect[ing] that he, who had cured so many strangers,"
"was likely Mary's sister-in-law, understanding Clopas (Cleophas) to have been Joseph's brother. According to the writer of Luke, Mary was a relative of Elizabeth, wife of the priest Zechariah of the priestly division of Abijah, who was herself part of the lineage of Aaron and so of the tribe of Levi. Some of those who consider that the relationship with Elizabeth was on the maternal side, consider that Mary, like Joseph, to whom she was betrothed, was of the royal House of David and so of the Tribe of Judah, and that the genealogy of Jesus presented in Luke 3"
"contrasted with her sister Martha, who was ""cumbered about many things"" while Jesus was their guest, while Mary had chosen ""the better part,"" that of listening to the master's discourse. John names her as the ""one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair"" (11:2). In Luke, an unidentified ""sinner"" in the house of a Pharisee anoints Jesus' feet. In Medieval Catholic folklore, Mary, the sister of Lazarus, was seen as the same as Mary Magdalene. Luke refers to a number of people accompanying Jesus and the twelve. From among them he names"
"Elizabeth (biblical figure) Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Greek Ἐλισάβετ) or ""Elisheba"" (from the Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע / אֱלִישָׁבַע ""My God has sworn""; Standard Hebrew Elišévaʿ Elišávaʿ, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîšéḇaʿ ʾĔlîšāḇaʿ; Arabic أليصابات, ""Alyassabat""), was the mother of John the Baptist and the wife of Zechariah, according to the Gospel of Luke. According to the Gospel of Luke, Elizabeth was ""of the daughters of Aaron"" (). She and her husband Zachariah were ""righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless"" (), but childless. While he was in the temple of the Lord (), Zacharias was visited"
"in John 19:25, where three women named Mary Mary, the mother of Jesus, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene are said to be witnesses. John also mentions the ""sister"" of the mother of Jesus, often identified with Mary of Clopas due to grammar. Mary ""of Clopas"" is often interpreted as Mary, ""wife of Clopas"". Mary of Nazareth and Mary of Clopas also need not be literally sisters, in light of the usage of the said words in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. Mary of Clopas is suggested to be the same as ""Mary, the mother of James the younger and Joses"","
"Mary the mother of James son of Alphaeus. For detailed explanations, please see: Brothers of Jesus and James the brother of Jesus. In a manner very similar to the Gospel of John, the apocryphal Gospel of Philip also seems to list Mary of Cleophas among Jesus' female entourage: There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary. Adding to the confusion, the Gospel of Philip seems to refer to her as Jesus' mother's"
"Mary and Martha are the same, though this is not conclusively stated in the Gospels, and the proliferation of New Testament ""Marys"" is notorious. Medieval Western Christianity identified Mary of Bethany with Mary Magdalene and with the sinful woman of . This influenced the Roman Rite liturgy of the feast of Mary Magdalene, with a Gospel reading about the sinful woman and a collect referring to Mary of Bethany. Since the 1969 revision of that liturgy, Mary Magdalene's feast day continues to be on 22 July, but Mary of Bethany is celebrated, together with her brother Lazarus, on 29 July,"
"of the two apostles. The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 said (rather more cautiously than leading 19th-century Protestant books of biblical reference) that ""some writers conjecture more or less plausibly that she is the sister of the Blessed Virgin mentioned in John 19:25"". Salome (disciple) Salome (, ""Shelomit""), or Mary Salome, was a follower of Jesus who appears briefly in the canonical gospels and in more detail in apocryphal writings. She is named by Mark as present at the crucifixion and as one of the women who found Jesus's tomb empty. Interpretation has further identified her with other women who are"
"Miriam Miriam () is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus. The Torah refers to her as ""Miriam the Prophetess"" and the Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel. Scripture describes her alongside of Moses and Aaron as delivering the Jews from exile in Egypt: ""For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses,"
"from Josephus and rabbinic literature, is the same family we meet in the 11th chapter of the Gospel: Lazarus, Martha, and Mary of Bethany. This is a beloved family, according to . The historical Lazarus was Eleazar son of Boethus, who was once Israel’s high priest, and from a clan that produced several high priests. The Gospel’s author, John, was not a member of the Twelve, but the son of Martha (Sukkah 52b). He closely matches the description given by Bishop Polycrates in his letter, a sacrificing priest who wore the petalon (i.e., emblem of the high priest). This John"
"Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40. The text in Mark continues to say ""Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where [Jesus] was laid."" (15:47 ESV). In the New Testament, the name ""James the Less"" appears only in this verse in Mark 15:40, who, by parallel accounts of the women at the crucifixion is usually equated with ""Mary the mother of James,"" and with Mary of Clopas, mentioned only in John 19:25. According to a tradition of Hegesippus (Eusebius III.11) this Clopas was a brother of Joseph making his wife Mary, Jesus' aunt and this James the younger and"