When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Jesus.
⌞When you said,⌟ “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “O Lord, I will seek your face.”
A person is delighted to hear an answer from his own mouth, and a timely word—oh, how good!
⌞As⌟ iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens the wits of another.
After Martha had said this, she went back home and whispered to her sister Mary, “The teacher is here, and he is calling for you.”
(Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still where Martha had met him.)
