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broke: Mary is good and Martha is bad because Martha did silly things like housework while Jesus was at her house instead of paying attention to Him.
woke: The Lord admonished Martha not because she was doing housework, but because she was being too uptight and unfairly rebuked Mary in an embarrassing way in front of their guests. It was unfair of Martha to assume Mary wasn’t serving the Lord just because Mary was doing so in a different way than Martha.
b e s p o k e: Martha and Mary’s dispositions aren’t opposed–they’re complementary. Martha’s strength is in serving the Lord through activity. She keeps everything running when He is at her house (Luke 10:40), and when she hears that He is coming to see them after Lazarus has died, she rushes to meet Him before He even gets to their house (John 11:20). Mary’s strength, however, is in serving the Lord through contemplation. She sits at Christ’s feet and learns from Him (Luke 10:39), and when her brother dies she stays in the house observing the mourning rites, coming only when He asks her to (John 11:28-29). But John tells us that Jesus loved both Martha and Mary (John 11:5). It’s also important to note that both sisters express the same faith upon seeing Jesus: “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died” (John 11:21, and again in verse 32). The sisters display the active and the contemplative life, both of which are important for our journey towards salvation. Mary and Martha should both have our love and respect as disciples of Christ and great saints.
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