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<blockquote data-quote="CryptoLutheran" data-source="post: 56532859" data-attributes="member: 268962"><p>It's actually in Luke 10,</p><p></p><p>"<em>Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."</em>" - Luke 10:40-42</p><p></p><p>Mary was sitting and listening to Jesus teach, with "the guys" as it were, whereas Martha was likely busy doing housework, making food for the group, etc and Martha gets flustered and complains that Mary decided to join the guys instead of assisting her sister in the "womanly" stuff, to which Jesus says that Mary was doing a better thing (listening and learning).</p><p></p><p>Many see in this an example of Jesus welcoming women as disciples and co-equal with the men in this regard.</p><p></p><p>(as an aside, in the Western tradition this Mary is usually identified as Mary Magdalene, who has been venerated in Christian Tradition as "St. Mary the Equal-to-the-Apostles" and "St. Mary the Apostle to the Apostles")</p><p></p><p>-CryptoLutheran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CryptoLutheran, post: 56532859, member: 268962"] It's actually in Luke 10, "[I]Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."[/I]" - Luke 10:40-42 Mary was sitting and listening to Jesus teach, with "the guys" as it were, whereas Martha was likely busy doing housework, making food for the group, etc and Martha gets flustered and complains that Mary decided to join the guys instead of assisting her sister in the "womanly" stuff, to which Jesus says that Mary was doing a better thing (listening and learning). Many see in this an example of Jesus welcoming women as disciples and co-equal with the men in this regard. (as an aside, in the Western tradition this Mary is usually identified as Mary Magdalene, who has been venerated in Christian Tradition as "St. Mary the Equal-to-the-Apostles" and "St. Mary the Apostle to the Apostles") -CryptoLutheran [/QUOTE]
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