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Jesus and his disciples are on their Lucan journey to Jerusalem. They enter a village, where a woman named Martha receives them into her house. She is the key player. I’m the oldest of five siblings, and I wonder if she is also the older sister. Not one word is spoken by her sister Mary, who sits at the “Lord’s feet and listens to his teaching.”
