Luk 10:39. Ἀδελφὴ, a sister) a younger sister as is probable, and as it were a domestic virgin [free from all care of the household]. Martha stood in the position of matron of the household; Joh 12:2-3. [The author, in the Harm., pp. 392, 393, is of opinion that the Saviour was not at Bethany at this time,[102] and that Martha of Bethany did not possess at the same time a house in Galilee as well as in Bethany (Joh 11:1; Joh 12:2); and that therefore the pair of sisters bearing the same names (ὁμωνύμων) is different in Luke from the pair mentioned in the passages of John already quoted.] Comp. 1Co 7:32-33.-παρακαθίσασα, sitting down close to Him) So absolutely, ἐκαθέζετο, sat, Joh 11:20. The antithetic word is περιεσπᾶτο, was distracted or cumbered.
[102] It is called “a certain village,” and seems to have been in Galilee, not Judea.-ED. and TRANSL.