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The film tells the story of two very different women, Mary (Hilary Swank) and Martha (Brenda Blethyn), who both lose their sons to malaria. Mary is an overly protective American mother. After her young son and only child, George (Lux Haney-Jardine), is bullied by classmates, she decides to pull him out of school and take him on an extended trip ...
Mary and Martha may refer to: Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary, a story in Luke 10; Mary and Martha, sisters of Lazarus of Bethany, in John 11 Mary of Bethany; Martha; Mary and Martha, a 2013 British television movie starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn; Mary and Martha Society, a Christianity-based service organization
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Tintoretto, 1570s. Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary, in art usually called Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, and other variant names, is a Biblical episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament which appears only in Luke's Gospel (Luke 10:38–42), immediately after the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). [1]
Caravaggio, Martha and Mary Magdalene, c. 1598. Martha (left) reproaches Mary Magdalen for her lifestyle. The subject of Martha is mostly found in art from the Counter-Reformation onwards, especially in the 17th century, when the domestic setting is usually given a realistic depiction. Typically, Mary, the elder sister, is preparing or serving ...
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New Testament scholars have sought to explain how the story of Lazarus was probably composed. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) (11:2) [6] Verse 2, which many translations put between parentheses, [7] is at the centre of much scholarly controversy. [8]
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Martha was agitated because Mary was not helping prepare the meal. She asked Christ if He did not care. Christ gently reminded her that the meal was not the important task, but the hearing of His Word was the "one thing needful." Mary and Martha also appear in the gospel of John 11:1-44 and John 12:2-8.