A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                           A FAVOURED HOME PART III

"I, Martha, am living in Bethany with my sister Mary and my brother Lazarus.... Not too long ago our good Friend Jesus came over with His twelve disciples.... It was lovely having them over.... I had gone to the market to buy more food.... It was then time for me to prepare a meal for them..... I realised Mary was not showing up in the kitchen to give me a hand..... Where could she be? Did she not know that she was needed in the kitchen?.... She could only be in one place.... She could only be with Jesus... But that was not the proper place for her.... Rabbis would never allow a woman to learn from them.... Jesus would know that.... I decided I needed to speak to Him about my sister.... So I went to see Him.... No doubt, He would sort my sister out.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Martha decides to have a word with Jesus about her sister Mary....

                    ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                                  A FAVOURED HOME PART III

Jesus being a Jew, will know that a place of any Jewish woman is in the kitchen and not at the feet of a teacher. To be honest, Martha doesn't quite understand how Jesus can accept Mary at His feet for no respectable teacher would ever allow a woman to do so. But Jesus does and that may well cost Him His reputation one day. So perhaps she can help Him keep His reputation by telling Him to remind Mary to do what is right; to help her in the kitchen with the food preparations as you can read in Luke 10:40

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to Him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"

But things do not work out as Martha expects for when she approaches Jesus she fully expects Him to agree with her and to tell Mary off for listening to Him despite the crisis in the kitchen.