Luke 10:39 - Plain English Version

³⁹ Then her sister, Mary, sat down near Jesus. He was teaching the people about God, and Mary just sat there listening to everything he said.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ And she had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Lord's feet and was listening to His teaching.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet, and heard his word.

Common English Bible

³⁹ She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his message.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ And she had a sister, named Mary, who, while sitting beside the Lord's feet, was listening to his word.

Luke 10:39 Cross References

Luke 10:42

But only one thing is really important, and Mary is doing that. She is listening to me, and nobody can stop her.”

Luke 2:46

They looked for him for 3 days, then they found him in God’s ceremony house. He was sitting with the teachers there. He was listening to what they were saying, and he was asking them questions.

John 11:1

Jesus had a friend called Lazarus, and he lived in a little town in Judea country called Bethany. He lived there with his sisters, Mary and Martha. (Mary was the woman that, later on, rubbed Jesus’s feet with special perfume and wiped them with her hair.) One day, Lazarus got very sick,

John 11:19

Mary and Martha were really sad, so a lot of people from Jerusalem came and sat down with them, to be sad with them and help them feel better.

John 12:3

Then Mary came into the room with a big bottle of special perfume, that cost a lot of money. It was made from a plant called nard. Mary put that perfume all over Jesus’s feet, then she wiped his feet with her hair. The sweet smell of the perfume went right through the house.

Acts 22:3

“I am a Jew, just like you. I was born in Tarsus, in Cilicia country, but I grew up here in Jerusalem. I was a young man here, and I learned all our laws. You know Gamaliyel. You know he is a really good teacher, right? Well, he taught me all the laws that Moses gave to our grand-fathers. And I wanted to always do everything God says, so I never broke any of those laws. I’m sure that all you mob properly follow those laws too.