A new and equal place under the new covenant (Ben Worthington)

  [In the story of Martha and Mary in Luke 10, we] see once again a reorganizing of traditional priorities in light of Kingdom requirements.  Martha’s service is not denigrated but it does not come first. One must reorientate one’s lifestyle according to what Jesus says is the good portion.  It is this universal priority of faith and equality in faith that gives woman a new and equal place under the new covenant.  This is the radical nature of the Gospel and why it dramatically affected women’s status, especially in first-century Palestine.

--Ben Worthington III, 

Women in the Ministry of Jesus:  

A Study of Jesus’s Attitudes to Women and Their Roles 

as Reflected in His Earthly Life

Image source: Georg Friedrich Stettner, Christ at the Home of Martha and Mary (1639), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_at_the_home_of_Martha_and_Mary#/media/File:Georg_Friedrich_Stettner_(attr)_Christus_im_Hause_der_Martha.jpg