In a garden in Bethany, Jesus sits teaching, and Mary sits listening while Martha moves about. “Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
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Image: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
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