“Martha herself was taking great care with the service and was ministering to Christ with all her heart. Mary herself was seated at the feet of Jesus and kissing them.… Christ beholds them both with his divine eyes and is cheered and rejoices over the purity of their mode of life and the offering to him of their undefi…”
Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th c. — HOMILY ON THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS
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2There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
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1Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
— John 12:2 —
3Then 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.
4Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,