Lucas 10:41

41 Respondiendo el Señor, le dijo: Marta, Marta, tú estás preocupada y molesta por tantas cosas;

Lucas 10:41 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 10:41

And Jesus answered and said unto her
Calling her by her name, and repeating it, Martha, Martha, which expresses great intimacy and friendship, and much earnestness, and, as it were, pitying her present situation and circumstances:

thou art careful and troubled about many things;
intimating, that she was over anxious, and too solicitous, and more thoughtful and careful than she need be: he did not require such preparations for him, and so much attendance; she gave herself an unnecessary trouble in providing so many things for his entertainment, when less would have sufficed; so that instead of joining with her in her request, he reproves her for her over anxious care and solicitude, to have a nice and plentiful feast. The Persic version gives a sense quite contrary to the design of the text, rendering the words thus, "thou art adorned in all things, and hast the preference above many women".

Lucas 10:41 In-Context

39 Y ella tenía una hermana que se llamaba María, que sentada a los pies del Señor, escuchaba su palabra.

40 Pero Marta se preocupaba con todos los preparativos; y acercándose a El, le dijo: Señor, ¿no te importa que mi hermana me deje servir sola? Dile, pues, que me ayude.

41 Respondiendo el Señor, le dijo: Marta, Marta, tú estás preocupada y molesta por tantas cosas;

42 pero una sola cosa es necesaria, y María ha escogido la parte buena, la cual no le será quitada.