Luke 10:38-42
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- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- Greek Interlinear Bible, ScrTR, ScrTR t, Strong, Parsing, CGTS, CGES id, AV.
- The Bible Gateway: NRSV, RSV, NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- The Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
- "Learning and Practice," Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit.
- "Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?" (sermon on Mark 10:17-31), Clement of Alexandria (c. 200)
- Chapter 10, On Cleaving to God, Albertus Magnus, c. 1275.
- "Sanctification," Luke 10:42, Meister Eckhart.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "Christ does not desire to be waited upon in a delicate manner, but to be heard diligently; this is that which he especially requires."
- From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary (c. 1700).
- "Sitting at Christ's feet, signifies readiness to receive his word, and submission to the guidance of it."
- The Care of the Soul Urged as the One Thing Needful (Luke 10:42): sermon by George Whitefield.
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
John Wesley
(1703-1791).
- "Martha was encumbered - The Greek word properly signifies to be drawn different ways at the same time, and admirably expresses the situation of a mind, surrounded (as Martha's then was) with so many objects of care, that it hardly knows which to attend to first."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "Martha's choice would be taken from her, for her services would die with her; Mary's never, being spiritual and eternal. Both were true-hearted disciples, but the one was absorbed in the higher, the other in the lower of two ways of honoring their common Lord."
- "The One Thing Needful," Luke 10:42, Charles H. Spurgeon, 1871.
- From The
People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "Jesus cared nothing for bodily indulgence. The important thing was the bread of life."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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"First
Thoughts on Year C Gospel Passages in the Lectionary,"
Pentecost 8,
William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
- "Whoever it might be, whatever the gender, Luke assumes that the most important response of the host is to receive Jesus? word."
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Exegetical Notes
by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
- "I have thought of relating Mary's actions with sabbath rest -- a time to stop doing -- and as Luther defines it: 'We do not neglect God's Word and the preaching of it, but regard it as holy and gladly hear and learn it.'"
- Jesus Visits Martha and Mary, audio telling, story in episodes, graphic, audio and written commentaries. Go Tell Communications, Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village, 2010.
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Luke 10:38-42, Lisa M. Hess, Lectionary Homiletics, 2010.
- "How might Martha?s experience of the Lord?s visit been different had she had recourse to the simple wisdom of Brother Lawrence, the wisdom of opening one?s heart to divine love and receiving unearned grace amidst the most mundane of responsibilities?"
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Lectionary Blogging, John Petty, Progressive Involvement,
2010.
- "In her revolutionary action of ditching her expected gender role of "helping in the kitchen" and instead sitting and listening to Jesus, Mary has shown pluck and courage, and Jesus--the Lord!--backs her up."
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"Clearing Away the Psychic Clutter: Mary and Martha in Luke 10:38-42," Alyce McKenzie, sermon series on
Lukan texts, Patheos, 2010.
- "This text isn?t about siding with Martha or Mary; it?s about living into the kingdom of God that is already but not yet through the integration of prayer/study and service."
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Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours,
Luke 10:38-42, David Ewart, 2010.
- "If we really do desire that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven, then we need to ask, 'Who is doing the chores in heaven?' And if the answer is, 'No one,' then the second best answer for here on earth would be, 'Everyone.'"
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- "To be a disciple of Jesus, one must not only leave the dead to bury the dead and move out without regard to the folks back home (last Sunday?s gospel) but also be willing to risk, to open one?s door, sometimes in the middle of the night, and let Jesus into the living room."
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"I'm
Telling Jesus on You!" Russell Rathbun, The Hardest Question,
2010.
- "Living our lives in competition with, in opposition to, in judgment of, institutions and individuals, keeps us worried and out of earshot of the words which lead to the fullness of the life of the Kingdom of God. Jesus calls us out of these rivalistic relationships and into the Kingdom."
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"The Martha-Mary
Double Bind," Jane Carol Redmont, The Witness.
- "We have Mary the contemplative and Martha the busybody do-gooder. We have Mary in more recent decades reinterpreted as the model for women in theological education ? and we have an English group once opposed to the emancipation of women named the Martha Movement."
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"Living with Martha," Stephanie Frey, The Christian Century,
2004.
- "The good news is that Jesus the host grants permission for all distracted, frantic people to sit down and eat their fill of word and promise."
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"Kitchen Relief," Joy Douglas Strome, The Christian Century,
2007.
- "A reluctance to use this passage as a manifesto about the place of women in the gospel leads us to look again at the passage."
- "The Mystic and the Church," study guide, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Mysticism," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2005.
- Laterally Luke, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
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- "The message, I think, is that we all may be and often are called to relinquish roles, identities, patterns of behavior that feel 'tried and true' or even immutable not only for the sake of growing in our own discipleship, but to invite others -- even or especially others who may seem perfectly happy with a privileged role they've got -- to become more fully who they are in Christ, and to live more fully into the ministry to which Christ calls them."
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"Interpretations of Luke 10:38-42," Clara Beth Speel Van de Water,
Festschrift in Honor of Charles Speel, Monmouth College, 1997.
- "I dare say that it was controversial, at the very least, when women attached themselves to teachers as disciples, and that many rabbis would not have accepted Mary as Jesus did, even teaching her in her home."
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- "Don't wait until you have life "worked out" or until the kids are out of college or until you are financially secure enough to have enough money to live on until you are 93. Right now is a time to hear the Word of Jesus, to sit at his feet, to focus on the one thing that will transform our lives."
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"What Is Waste of Time?"
- "For some, prayer is a non-productive waste of time which can easily be done without. For others it is an effort to promote efficiency by getting God on our side...Christian meditation is just being still in the presence of the Lord."
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"Jesus Visits Martha and Mary," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources.
- "Try to list the different techniques used today to grow congregations, and consider how these divert members from the priority of the Word."
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- Articles & Background:
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"Lost in God: What Can We Learn from the Mystics?" Interview with
Bernard McGinn by Sarah Miller, The Christian Century, 2003.
- "Christian mystics, in particular, are not breakaway contemplatives who find their own way to God. They are bearers and interpreters of a common tradition built upon a concrete revelation: God became human so that humans might become God. Christian mystics do not dabble in altered states. They seek radically altered lives."
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"Take a Breather on the Tube," Roger Tagholm, The Guardian, July 10,
2004.
- "When I put my ticket into the barrier at the station what I am sometimes reminded of is one of the most famous collections of Zen koans - the 'gateless gate' of Wu-men Huik'ai, the 13th-century Chinese meditation master. We feel that there is a gate that 'separates' us from enlightenment, but once we pass through it - should we be lucky enough - we turn around and realise that the gate was never there in the first place. We are already enlightened - we just don't know it."
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- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Anderson, Mary W., "Hospitality
Theology," The Christian Century, 1998.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Baker, Aelred, "One Thing Necessary,"
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1965.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Carter, Warren, "Getting Martha out of
the Kitchen: Luke 10:38-42 Again," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1996.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Chung, Sook Ja, "Bible Study: Women's
Ways of Doing Mission in the Story of Mary and Martha," International
Review of Mission, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler, "A Feminist Critical
Interpretation for Liberation: Martha and Mary: Lk. 10:38-42," Religion
and Intellectual Life, 1986.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Frey, Stephanie, "Living with Martha," The
Christian Century, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hearon, Holly E.,
"Between Text and Sermon: Luke 10:38-42," Interpretation, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Heffner, Blake R., "Meister Eckhart and a Millennium with
Mary and Martha," Lutheran Quarterly, 1991.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Howell, Maxine, "Towards a Womanist Pneumatological
Pedagogy: Reading and Re-reading the Bible from British Black Women's
Perspectives," Black Theology, 2009.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hutson, Christopher Roy, "Martha's Choice: A
Pastorally Sensitive Reading of Luke 10:38-42," Restoration Quarterly,
2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Jones, L. Gregory, "The Virtues of
Hospitality," The Christian Century, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Karris, Robert J., "Luke's Soteriology of With-ness,"
Currents in Theology and Mission, 1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Phillips, Gary A., "'What Is Written? How Are You
Reading?' Gospel, Intertextuality and Doing Lukewise: Reading Lk 10:25-42
Otherwise," Semeia, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Smith, Mitzi J., "A Tale of Two Sisters: Am I My Sister's
Keeper?" Journal of Religious Thought, 1996.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Strome, Joy Douglas, "Kitchen Relief," The
Christian Century, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Wall, Robert W., "Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42) in the
Context of a Christian Deuteronomy," Journal for the Study of the New
Testament, 1989.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Anderson, Mary W., "Hospitality
Theology," The Christian Century, 1998.
- Reviews:
- Reviews: Frances Taylor Gench, Back to the Well: Women's Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels. Westminster John Knox, 2004. Reviews by Orysya Hachko, Kelly Iverson, and Betsy J Bauman-Maring in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
- Sermons:
- "Worried and Distracted," the Rev. Susie B. Smith, Day 1, 2010.
- Sample Sermon, Kate Huey, SAMUEL, UCC, 2010.
- "Both Mary and Martha," Daniel J. Harrington, America: The National Catholic Weekly, 2007.
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- "Mi Casa, Su Casa," Dianne Bergant, CSA, America: The National Catholic Weekly, 2004.
- "Sisterhood Is Powerful?" John R Donahue, SJ, America: The National Catholic Weekly, 2001.
- "The Tyranny of the Urgent," John Jewell, 2001.
- "Our Ultimate Concern," (Luke 10:38-42), Paul Tillich. From The New Being (1955), at Religion OnLine.
- Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily
- With Children:
- "Mary, Martha and Lazarus," Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts.
- "Martha, Martha," Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com.
- "The Most Important Thing," children's sermon, coloring page. Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons 4 Kids.
- "A Special Dinner Guest," Linda Edwards, The Children's Chapel.
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"Jesus Visits Mary
and Martha,"
- Drama:
- "Bethany's Pub," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
- "Late for My Funeral," Joanne Miller, dramatix.
- "M&M's Bed & Breakfast," Glenn A. Hascall, dramatix.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art, Luke 10:41, Luke 10:42, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
- Clip Art Images: Luke 10:25-37, Luke 10:25-37, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
- Luke 10:38-42 at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
- Luke 10:38-42, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
- Hymns and Music:
- Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Luke 10:39, 42. The Cyber Hymnal.
- Hymnal Scripture References, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship.
- At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke files, projection text):
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Movies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Luke
