When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek.
A person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word!
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.”
Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.