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	Mary, sister of Lazarus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Gospel of John, Mary of Bethany (Hebrew מרים Miryām, Miryam "Bitter"), the sister of Lazarus appears in connection with the visits of Jesus to Bethany and the death and rising from the dead of her brother Lazarus (John 11:20,31,33).
		Thus the Johannine tradition explicitly identified Mary sister of Lazarus with the unidentified "sinner" in the house of the Pharisee.
		The Greek churches continue to distinguish Mary Magdalene, this Mary sister of Lazarus, and "the sinner" of Luke 7:36–50.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary,_sister_of_Lazarus (510 words)

	Martha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the gospel of John, she was the sister of Lazarus and Mary, and she witnessed her brother's resurrection.
		According to one legend, Martha left Judea after Jesus's death, around AD 48, and went to Provence with her sister Mary (potentially Mary Magdalene) and her brother Lazarus.
		Martha first settled in Avignon (now in France), then went to Tarascon, where a monster, the Tarasque, was a constant threat to the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martha (457 words)

	Marymagdalene
		Some church Christians try to infer that Mary Magdalene was a goodly woman or others seem to think she came from the upper class or was a High Priestess of a heathen temple, but no where in the Bible does it suggest that she came from the upper echelon of society, no where.
		Mary of Martha was the one that had gotten the expensive ointment through prostitution surely) and washed Jesus's feet.
		Mary of Martha, was Mary Magdalene and loved so much because she was forgiven so much by the Lord.
	www.geocities.com /davidjayjordan/Marymagdalene.html (928 words)

	mary - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		In John 2:1-11, Mary's presence at Jesus' first public miracle of changing water to wine at the marriage at Cana underscores, in a profound manner, that Jesus' destiny challenges all norms, including that of immediate family relationships.
		To confuse the interpretative tradition further, the sinful woman in the anointing scene of Luke 7:36-50 is often identified incorrectly with another Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazrus.
		Mary from Bethany played a primary role in the episode of Lazarus' resurrection from the dead in John 11:1.
	www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?word=mary&action=Lookup (933 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - The real Mary Magdalene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Mary Magdalene is mentioned in each of the four gospels in the New Testament, but not once does it mention that she was a prostitute or a sinner.
		At some point Mary Magdalene became confused with two other women in the Bible: Mary, the sister of Martha and the unnamed sinner from Luke's gospel (7:36-50) both of whom wash Jesus' feet with their hair.
		There is nothing in the limited amount of material we have about Mary in the Gospel traditions that suggests she is married, she's never described as being a widow, and she also is not said to have any children.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/features/biblemysteries/mary.shtml (2384 words)

	Feast of St.Martha
		Martha -- the Lord's worker and servant, the sister of Saints Mary Magdalen and Lazarus (all three of whom "Jesus loved" as we see in John 11:5) -- is only mentioned in three chapters of the Bible, but her character comes through clearly.
		Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
		Martha and Mary were sisters, not in the flesh only, but also in godliness; together, they clave unto the Lord; together, with one heart they served the Lord present in the Flesh.
	www.fisheaters.com /customstimeafterpentecost5a.html (4212 words)

	Eschatology Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Mary Magdalene was one of the few bold enough to watch Jesus suffer and die on the Cross.
		Next best known is Mary Magdalene because of her relationship with Jesus, discovery of the empty tomb with the "other" Mary, and her encounter with the angels and Jesus outside of the tomb.
		Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus’ most intimate disciples who followed Him throughout His earthly ministry, to the Cross, and to the tomb.
	www.eschatologytoday.net /editorial_viewer.php?id=6 (2787 words)

	The Sisters of Bethany - Reconciling Mary and Martha - Women for Contemplation and Active Service
		Mary is the one who became Christ’s companion and some scholars believe she was His bride.
		Mary was keeper of the holy oils and balms, guardian of rituals.
		Martha teaches us to be mindful of creating beauty and sacred space, of nurturing others, of tending the hearth and tending the soul of the world.
	www.sacredimagination.com /mm.htm (1877 words)

	Women Hear the Call to Follow Jesus
		The Magnificat, Mary's response to the greeting of her cousin Elizabeth, is the most beautiful poem we have in the New Testament; indeed, it is one of the most beautiful poems in all literature.
		Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus, repeatedly opened her home to Jesus and the disciples.
		Mary Magdalene was the first person Jesus greeted after he rose from the dead on Easter morning.
	www.sundayschoollessons.com /women.htm (374 words)

	Grace Lutheran Church / Stained-Glass Windows: Mary and Martha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Mary took the opportunity to learn from Jesus, when the visit of our savior brought the message of salvation conveniently close to her.
		Martha was distracted from her time with Jesus, because she felt she had to be elsewhere than studying the message of Jesus.
		Martha had work to do, reputation to uphold, support to provide for Jesus and Mary's lack of help, and goals to be accomplished.
	www.butler-bremer.com /web/hmschult/maryandmartha.HTM (291 words)

	www.cg: There's Something About Martha
		The one identified in the New Testament merely as Martha, the sister of Mary.
		Martha's religious knowledge is evidence but incomplete." Yet a statement of faith follows from her lips in verse 22: "I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask." From a "bustling, impetuous person whose major interest was action....
		Martha wasn't afraid, not even in a time of grief and agony - and a time is approaching when "....at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Phil.
	www.angelfire.com /ga4/wwwcg/martha.html (2065 words)

	~~ Ship of Fools ~~ The Ark ~~ Mary Mag ~~
		Along with two other biblical Marys, Mary Magdalene is said to have fled persecution in Palestine all the way to Provence in France.
		Medieval legend said that Mary had been betrothed to the disciple John until their burgeoning holiness put a stop to that kind of thing.
		Mary is the patron saint of prostitutes, contemplatives, hairdressers, repentance and sexual temptation.
	ark.saintsimeon.co.uk /mary/biog.php (568 words)

	Feast of St.Mary Magdalen
		Mary's story of redemption and grace is a very important and relevant to today's world, a world in which such sinful behaviors are seen as normal and good.
		While St. Martha gathered about her a community of women, and while St. Lazarus became a Bishop, Mary is said to have retired to a cave in a hill in La Sainte-Baume to live a life of penance for thirty years.
		Mary Magdalene, you came with springing tears to the spring of mercy, Christ; from Him your burning thirst was abundantly refreshed through Him your sins were forgiven; by Him your bitter sorrow was consoled.
	www.fisheaters.com /customstimeafterpentecost3x.html (4502 words)

	Edgar Cayce Readings, 295-8
		In giving a detailed account of the experience as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, indeed much might be given respecting the activities of the entity in that experience.
		Hence the associations of Mary and John became the closest after this (we are speaking of Mary, the sister of Martha).
		The period of life of Mary (that is, of Mary the sister of Lazarus) was some twenty and two (22) years; she being twenty-three (23) years old when the Christ cleansed her from the seven (7) devils: Avarice, hate, self-indulgence, and those of the kindred selfishness; hopelessness and blasphemy.
	essenes.net /295.html (3114 words)

	Biblical Characters: Mary and Martha (Lazarus Sisters): People/Characters of the Bible; Bible Picture Tour
		Mary lived in her sister Martha's home in Bethany.
		While Martha toiled and worried over the preparations for her house guests, Mary sat attentively at the feet of Jesus, hanging on every word.
		Martha was frustrated that Mary was not helping her with the work to be done, but Jesus vindicated her choice as the only necessary thing.
	www.mustardseed.net /html/pemarymartha.html (546 words)

	THE MARY MAGDALENE MYSTERY
		Jesus cured Mary of "seven demons" and she accompanied him on his mission (Luke 8:2), was present at his crucifixion and burial (Mat 27.56 et al.), visited the empty tomb (Mat 28.1 et al.), and may have been the first to see the risen Christ (John 20.14-16).
		Highlighting Mary's gender and stature as a disciple, and the rise of women and people of color in the church, the icon was dedicated by Bishop Barbara Harris, first woman bishop, and first African-American woman bishop, of the Episcopal Church, in 1990.
		It identifies Mary Magdalene with Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/crypt/cry_20060516.shtml (1150 words)

	Biography: Mary and Martha of Bethany (29 July NT)
		Mary and Martha lived with their brother Lazarus at Bethany, a village not far from Jerusalem.
		Martha, upon being told that He was approaching, went out to meet Him, while Mary sat still in the house until He sent for her.
		Mary was criticized for wasting what might have been sold to raise money for the poor, and again Jesus spoke on her behalf.
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/07/29.html (301 words)

	Kahlil Gibran - Lazarus And His Beloved (Printable Version)
		Martha is seated at her loom near the house door, left.
		Mary: It is easy for one in a dream to lose his way among the olive groves.
		Mary: (sitting down beside Lazarus on the grass under the almond trees, and speaking to Martha) It is true the April evenings are not good for either your loom or your linen.
	www.kahlil.org /lazaruspf (2669 words)

	Martha's sister
		People are trying to tell me that Mary the sister of Martha and Mary Magdalene are the same person.
		The gospel of John recorded that this woman was Mary the sister of Lazarus (whom Jesus resurrected from death) and Martha.
		Mary Magdalene is recorded in the gospels several times at Jesus death and at the tomb.
	english.sdaglobal.org /question/marsitr.htm (485 words)

	Mary the Prostitue?
		There is no reason to connect Mary with the "woman caught in sin" (who was an adulterer, not a prostitute), or the sinning woman in Luke 7:37 (we don't know what her sin was but it is not unreasonable to assume she was a prostitute) or any other prostitute or Mary in the bible.
		The misreading of Mary Magdalene is almost as ancient as the Gospels of the New Testament themselves, if only because there are up to five different Marys in the Gospels and seven in the New Testament as a whole.
		Mary Magdalene is named in some scripture before all the other women following Jesus which is an indication of her being the older woman.
	forums.crosswalk.com /fb.aspx?m=701367 (2329 words)

	Ask Sister Mary Martha
		Mary must have been concieved without the stain of original sin on her soul or she would have passed original sin onto Jesus.
		When Mary is three her parents take her to the temple where she becomes a temple virgin and learns to sew and weave.
		I promised I'd tell you the life story of Mary and I realized that the best way to do that is to use the rosary, her very special prayer, which is also the story of her life.
	asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com (4614 words)

	The Risen Christ & Mary Magdalene Descriptive Information
		Mary’s hair is long and flowing, symbolic of the tradition that she was very beautiful.
		Catholic tradition has long held that three women mentioned in the Gospels are one and the same; the sinner who anoints Christ’s feet (Luke 7:37-50), Mary Magdalene of Luke 8:2 and the Crucifixion accounts, and Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus (Luke 10:38-42 and John 9).
		The Gospels do agree, however, that Mary Magdalene was a witness to the Resurrection and passed on the news to the Apostles.
	www.printeryhouse.org /mall/Icons/Holy_women/m22.asp (586 words)

	MAGDALENE
		Mary Magdalene is identified with Martha's sister in the South-English Legendary and the Legenda aurea.
		Mary Magdalene is identified with the peccatrix (sinner) in Gregory's XL Homiliae in evangelica XXX and XXXIII (PL 16: 1189, 1238-1246).
		Mary's ointment is the sweet odor of Holy Church, ParsT 947-1000.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/M/magdalen.htm (523 words)

	A Mary Heart & Martha Hands by Judy Wiedenkeller, a column from the Lutheran Woman's Quarterly, Fall 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Martha and her sister, Mary, had invited Jesus to their home, to serve Him and to prepare a meal for Him to enjoy.
		Mary, however, relaxed comfortably at Jesus' feet and listened to His conversation, seemingly unaware of her sister's needs.
		Martha may have had the gift of hospitality, but she was overwhelmed by the work.
	www.lwml.org /quarterly/f04/columns/christian_living_f04.html (404 words)

	Saints - Martha
		She, her sister Mary and their brother Lazarus were close friends of Jesus.
		Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him, "Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone.
		Beacuse of Martha's faith in her brother's rising on the last day, she was rewarded with one of Jesus' deepest revelations...
	www.scborromeo.org /saints/martha.htm (472 words)

	About St Mary Magdalen, Sheet
		Mary Magdalen, probably from Magdala on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee near Tiberias, became a follower of Christ and has been the classic example of the repentant sinner from earliest times.
		She is mentioned in the four gospels as one of the most devoted followers of our Lord and is identified with the unknown sinner who anointed Christ's feet in Simon's house (Luke 7: 36ff) and with Mary, the sister of Martha.
		She was among the women at the Crucifixion and, with Joanna and Mary, the mother of James and Salome, discovered the empty tomb and heard the angelic announcement of the resurrection of Christ.
	www.stmarymagdalensheet.org.uk /stmm.htm (120 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Saint Mary Magdalen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		She is mentioned as the sinner (Luke 7), who bathed the feet of Christ; as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus (Luke 10 and John 11); and later as Mary Magdalen (Luke 8), who ministered to Christ, by whom she was freed from seven devils.
		After her conversion, she remained faithful to Christ; stood at the foot of the cross (Mark 15, Matthew 27; John 19; Luke 22); and was the first witness of the Resurrection.
		The Greek tradition holds that Mary Magdalen retired to Ephesus with the Blessed Virgin, and died there, her relics being transferred to Constantinople.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd05121.htm (195 words)

	Virginians: The Family History of Unknown
		First Gilbert and Mary were in court “at variance… over a portion of Gilbert’s own estate which by deed… [he] had made over to her.” Then Gilbert had a run-in with Mary’s eldest son, Joseph, who threw some sticks in his direction.
		Martha Sheppey married second Edward Stratton who was already the father of two children, including Edward Stratton who was married to Martha’s daughter Martha Sheppey.
		Mary Ligon confirmed Edward’s story but revealed to the court that Martha’s sister Mary Platt had an earlier will, which the court ordered her to produce.
	www.virginians.com /topics/7046.htm (8132 words)

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