Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
As Jesus and his disciples went on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha welcomed him in her home.
Martha was upset over all the work she had to do, so she came and said, “Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her to come and help me!”
The Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha! You are worried and troubled over so many things,
A man named Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. (
The sisters sent Jesus a message: “Lord, your dear friend is sick.”
“See how much he loved him!” the people said.
Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.
“Teacher,” the disciples answered, “just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone you; and are you planning to go back?”
for the Father himself loves you. He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God.
I made you known to them, and I will continue to do so, in order that the love you have for me may be in them, and so that I also may be in them.”
