Criss - Cross, Mary and Martha

Attention to Jesus is life’s highest priority

Stage 1 – Good Times

People tend to praise God well, if THEY are doing well…

Stage 2 – Bad Times

John 11:3 ESV

So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

John 11:3–4 ESV

So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

John 11:4 ESV

But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

John 11:20 ESV

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

John 11:21 ESV

Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

John 11:25 ESV

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

John 11:25 ESV

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

John 11

John 11:43–45 ESV

When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,

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John 11:43 ESV

When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”

John 11:44 ESV

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

John 11:45 ESV

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,

Stage 3 – Restored Times

John 12:1 ESV

Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

John 12:2 ESV

So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

John 12

John 12:3 ESV

Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Are You Like Mary?