Verse 41
41. 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.
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