Martha

And it came to pass, in their going on, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, did receive him into her house,

and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'

And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things,

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister--

And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;

Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died--Martha--saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;