Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Martha, Martha—emphatically redoubling upon the name.
careful and cumbered—the one word expressing the inward worrying anxiety that her preparations should be worthy of her Lord; the other, the outward bustle of those preparations.
many things—"much service" (Luke 10:40); too elaborate preparation, which so engrossed her attention that she missed her Lord's teaching.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 10:41:
Ecclesiastes 3:6
Luke 10:38
Luke 22:31-34
John 11:20-22
John 12:2
1 Corinthians 7:31
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