Mary and Martha are Biblical ... D.C., and a former seminary professor, says that Martha's profession of faith is an underappreciated moment in the Bible. "It's a bold proclamation, and she ...

Tell her to help me." The Bible does not specify the birth order of siblings Martha, Mary and Lazarus, but I just feel in my bones that Martha was the oldest sister. (It takes one to know one.) ...

Mary and Martha are ... still life kitchen scene with the Bible. On the left, we have two women in a kitchen. The younger one is slaving away at cooking, and Martha doesn’t look too happy.

Too often this passage, in which Martha complains about Mary not helping with the diakonia ... as if the evangelist is trying to keep up with all his activity, doing things euthus, immediately.

Over the centuries, the story of Jesus in the house of Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38-42) was often misinterpreted as exalting the life of spiritual contemplation and minimizing a life of action.

Sometimes you see Mary’s name changed to Martha’s; sometimes you see Martha’s name awkwardly added in the margin. Sometimes you see Mary doing things that your Bible would say that Martha does. Why ...

To underscore the point, Pagels went to fetch a copy of “The New Oxford Annotated Bible,” flipping ... In a crucial passage, the name Mary had been altered to Martha, by crossing out the ...