Because of this event, what we now refer to as the “Raising of Lazarus”, many people came to believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Still wrapped in his bandages, he emerged from the tomb. Once they were, he told Lazarus to come forward. When Jesus arrived at Lazarus’s tomb, he ordered that the stones be rolled away. Lazarus had passed away four days prior and was already buried in his tomb. Martha and Mary sent word to Jesus that his friend was sick, and when Jesus arrived, it looked as if he was too late. While Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, Lazarus became very ill. Jesus had a close relationship with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. He has two sisters named Mary and Martha, and they were also mentioned in the gospels. In the Gospel of John, we know that he came from a town named Bethany, which was outside of Jerusalem. Saint Martha is the patron of housewives, servants, waiters and cooks.Much of Lazarus’s story is chronicled in the New Testament. "Martha served," and in doing so teaches us the way of Christian life. Martha, whom we have seen serving, in Luke, and then believing, earlier in John, is now seen expressing her belief in the action of serving the Lord. During dinner, John's Gospel tells us, "Martha served." She is revealed here performing the same task as when we first saw her, but now her service is infused with her faith, and the brevity of the description suggests the silence and peace in which she serves as opposed to the nervous anxiety she displayed earlier. In the third and last instance, we see Martha, again in John, at a house in Bethany where Jesus was reclining at table with her brother Lazarus after he had raised him from the dead. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world," displaying her great faith which is confirmed by Jesus' subsequent raising of her brother Lazarus from the grave. When asked by the Lord if she believed this she said to Him, "Yes, Lord. Yet she is seen next in John, outside the tomb of her brother Lazarus who had died four days earlier, as the one who receives the Revelation from the Lord that "I am the resurrection and the life whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die." The overanxiousness she displays in serving is put into the right context by Jesus who emphasizes the importance of contemplating Him before all things. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her." Her complaint that her sister is not helping her serve draws a reply from the Lord who says to her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. In the gospel of Luke, Martha receives Jesus into her home and worries herself with serving Him, a worry that her sister Mary, who sat beside the Lord's feet "listening to Him speak," doesn't share. Saint Martha is mentioned in three Gospel passages: Luke 10:38-42, John 11:1-53, and John 12:1-9, and the type of friendship between her and her siblings, Mary and Lazarus, with the Lord Jesus is evident in these passages. "Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus" (John 11:5).
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