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The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor

The Prophet Mary

John 12:1-8

5th Sunday in Lent - Year C

March 21, 2010

The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor (TEC)

Today we are headed to a home in the Jerusalem suburb of Bethany, where Jesus stopped in to see his old friends Mary, Martha and Lazarus before he entered the city for the last time.  He loved them, John tells us, although he does not tell us why.  Maybe there is no "why" to love.  They called him Lord, so they knew who he was, and yet they were not his disciples, at least not in any formal sense.  They were his friends, the three people in whose presence he could be a man as well as a Messiah.

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