jesus. lord, do you not care that my sister s left me to serve alone? instead of getting in her own sister s face, she gets in jesus face and says, you tell her, and jesus response is unexpected. martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her. the story is about priorities, even a woman has a right to prioritize learning from me over preparing a meal. in john s gospel, martha and mary have a brother. lazarus! we don t know too much about lazarus, but there are some clues in the gospels.
prospect not just for him but for everyone. he helped others. why couldn t he help lazarus? is the question asked about him, right? and so i think jesus has mixed emotions about this. he s not going to respond to the will of a human being. he s going to wait from the word from on high before he does something. what may be a sign in john s gospel that jesus has control over the situation. if he wants to wait, he will wait. he s god. martha! as lazarus dies, mary and martha must have experienced that deep grief of death but also the grief of, it could ve been different, knowing that there is one in their lives who could have healed him and not
someway, come to india, so one could say, why not by thomas? in bari cathedral in italy is a relic believed to have been venerated for over 1,700 years across the christian world. it s said to be the arm that touched the resurrected jesus, the arm of saint thomas. so if the relics of saint thomas were found to be from the first century, that would be incredibly exciting. could this relic date to the time of jesus and help solve the mystery of what happened to the disciple famous for his doubt? thomas is present in all four gospels, but it s in jerusalem, after jesus has been crucified, in the gospel of john, that his story comes into focus. it s difficult to understand
tell of a critical moment here, 2 miles outside jerusalem. the village of bethany is named in the gospels as the place where jesus stayed during the last week of his life. the gospel of john places the scene in the house of lazarus, the man jesus raised from the dead. just a few days before his crucifixion, a woman came to jesus and anointed his feet with expensive ointments and perfumes. mary anoints jesus with pistic nardis, the chanel no. 5 of antiquity, and she uses a whole pot of it, a whole year s worth of a day laborer s wages. people who saw it were scandalized. they were shocked. none more so than the group s treasurer, judas. why was the ointment wasted in this way?
it makes the king angry, and by the time thomas converts his wife and the king s son as well, misdaeus has had enough. the jealous king dispatches his men to capture and kill thomas. his final words repeat the same acclamation he made in the gospel of john when jesus, the risen christ, appeared to him. my lord, my god, i have fulfilled the work you gave me and obeyed your every command.