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Welcome to Catholic Saints. We're here for another episode on St. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. And today I am joined with Dr. James Perthro. And my name's Mary, if I'd introduce myself. Hello. Thank you for joining us on this episode. And Dr. Perothero, where do we learn about Mary, Martha, and Lazarus?

It's great to be here, Mary. And just to introduce you since you barely did it yourself, we're here with the amazing Mary McGee.

And we learn about St. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus from the New Testament, especially in two, three chapters, I guess.

So one of them is in Luke chapter 10, where we meet Mary and Martha.

And this is a famous story where Jesus comes, he's received in their house.

They all live in Bethany, which is not far from Jerusalem.

And Mary and Martha received Jesus into the house, and Martha is doing the kitchen work,

right, doing the hospitality work, and Mary just sits at Jesus' feet. And Martha complains to Jesus

and says, make her help me, right? Don't you care that she's not helping?

And Jesus says she's actually chosen the more important thing. And she can sit at my feet and

listen to me all day if she wants to.

It's a very relatable moment in scripture. I know, right?

Easy to put yourself in both of those characters. I know, and it's easy to over read it. We can talk about it in a second. But then with all three of

them, Mary Martha and Lazarus, we get all three of them in John's Gospel, especially chapters 11 and 12.

And this is where Jesus goes to Bethany after Lazarus has died and meets Martha, who comes out to meet him, meets Mary after that, and then calls Lazarus

forth from the tomb and raises him from the dead.

And then this is what, this is kind of in John's Gospel, this is the last thing that gets us

started with Passion Week. We turn the page. At the end of Lazarus being raised, the people in Jerusalem start to like him more

and at the same time start to hate him more, right, and be more afraid that he's going to cause

trouble. And so it really sets the stage for what happens in the next chapter, which is Palm Sunday,

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