The two sisters of Bethany both loved Jesus, but their love was manifested according to their different conceptions of him. Martha's anxiety was to entertain the personal man as an honored guest; her thought was for the body, and she was "careful and troubled about many things;" but Mary waited upon him in Spirit; she had chosen "that good part" that should never be taken from her.
Close companionship with his personality, did not make the Christ known to the disciples. "Whom say ye that I, the Son of Man am?" Peter, alone of the twelve, answered: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." "Flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father in heaven," was the response of Jesus. "No man," said he, "knoweth the Father but the Son and no man knoweth the Son but the Father and he to whomsoever He will reveal him." All knowledge of God, Truth, is through this inward revelation of the Son, whom to know (understand) is Life eternal. For this is Life eternal, to know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ"—Principle revealed— "whom thou hast sent"—
