A home open to him

Martha & Mary

Sisters whose stories include hospitality, listening, grief, and faith. Their brother Lazarus appears in John’s account.

Let the text introduce them.

Begin with Luke 10; John 11–12. Notice what the passage tells you, what it leaves unsaid, and what you may have brought to it from other retellings.

What question would you bring to this person’s story? Read slowly enough to notice a detail you have passed over before.

Sources: Luke 10; John 11–12. Images are imagined reconstructions. Where the biblical text gives few details, we preserve that uncertainty.