Luke 10:38

Ver. 38,39. Interpreters think this village was Bethany, and that this Martha and Mary were the same which are mentioned 1 Thessalonians 11:2. Inns probably were not so frequent then, and in those places, as they are now, so as strangers were often received in private houses. Christ loseth no opportunity of preaching the gospel; while they were preparing supper, he was entertaining the family with the glad tidings of the gospel, the feast of fat things made upon the mountain, Isaiah 25:6. The lips of the righteous feed many, Proverbs 10:21. It was their fashion to have disciples sit at their doctors feet, to hear their word; there Mary fixes herself.