Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
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Gill's Exposition
And she had a sister called Mary,.... Which also was a common name with the Jews, and is the same with Miriam; so we read of Mary, the daughter of Nicodemon, the same perhaps with Nicodemus; and the…
Barnes' Notes
A certain village - Bethany. See Joh 11:1. It was on the eastern declivity of the Mount of Olives. See the notes at Mat 21:1. Received him - Received him kindly and hospitably. From this it would seem…
Adam Clarke
A certain village - If this village was Bethany, where Martha and Mary lived, at less than two miles' distance from Jerusalem, see Joh 11:1, Joh 11:18; Joh 12:2, then this must have happened later…
We may observe in this story,
I. The entertainment which Martha gave to Christ and his disciples at her house, Luk 10:38. Observe,
1. Christ's coming to the village where Martha lived: As they went…
Cambridge Bible
38-42. The Sisters of Bethany.
38. into a certain village Undoubtedly Bethany, Joh 11:1. Both this and the expression "a certain woman" are obvious traces of a tendency to reticence about the family…
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