Sister of Mary and Lazarus · First century AD
Martha in the Bible
Martha runs the house at Bethany and says so. She is also the one who meets Jesus on the road when her brother is four days dead and makes the clearest confession in John's Gospel outside Peter's.
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Verses mentioning Martha
13 occurrences across 12 verses in the King James Version.
- Luke 10:38
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
Read in context - Luke 10:40
But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Read in context - Luke 10:41
And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
Read in context - John 11:1
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
Read in context - John 11:5
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Read in context - John 11:19
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
Read in context - John 11:20
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
Read in context - John 11:21
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Read in context - John 11:24
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Read in context - John 11:30
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
Read in context - John 11:39
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
Read in context - John 12:2
There 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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