³⁸ Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

² and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary that was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

³ and Joanna the wife of Chuzas Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered unto them of their substance.

¹ Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

² And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

³ The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

⁴ But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.

⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

¹⁹ and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

²⁰ Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house.

¹ Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.

² So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.

³ Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

¹⁵ And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide `there'. And she constrained us.

¹⁰ If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into `your' house, and give him no greeting: