This Mary
Am I this Ron? this Nick? The one who… Mary was specific to Jesus, not a face in the crowd. She was the one with whom he’d had an interaction. Is this how Martha and Lazarus came to be friends of Jesus? No. That doesn’t happen until chapter 12. Mary is not mentioned by John until this incident and shows up next anointing Jesus’s feet. She then drops out of John's gospel. But she will never drop out of Jesus's heart (vs 5) or out of the ongoing gospel story (Matthew 26:13 & Mark 14:9).
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