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Updated: June 13, 2025
Then, if nothing has occurred, we will, we shall HAVE to call a friendly gathering, we shall be compelled to have a friendly consultation. 'I'm not, I hope, a brute, Bethany, said Danton apologetically; 'but, honestly, speaking for myself, simply as a man of the world, it's a big risk to be taking on what shall we call it? on mere intuition.
"Welcome, best of teachers, O what joy that thou shouldst honor my house with thy entrance. Dear friends, be also welcome," he exclaimed; but he was startled to hear the reply, "Simon, for the last time I, with my disciples, lay claim to thy hospitality." Simon replied in grief, "Say not so, Lord. Often still shall Bethany afford thee brief repose."
Sheila lowered her eyes softly on to the rich-toned picture in the glass. 'Supposing, she said, watching her lips move, 'supposing of course, I know you are getting better and all that but supposing you don't change back as Mr Bethany thinks, what will you do?
To Him, 'whose nature and whose name are Love, it matters nothing whether He is in the house at Bethany, or in the upper room, or hanging on the Cross, or lying in the grave, or risen from the dead, or seated on the right hand of God. He is the same everywhere and always. 'I have loved thee with an everlasting love.
It waits only on one's walking out fully into all the light that comes, no matter where it may lead your steps. The Bethany Height of Faith. The Bethany story is one of the tenderest of all. It touches the heights. It's a hilltop story, both in its setting amidst the Bethany blue hills where it grew up, and in the height of faith it records.
At another time he was deputed to be the first Rector of the Sisters at Bronope, near Kampen, and at last he ended his life happily in a good old age and in obedience in Bethany, which is by interpretation "the House of Obedience," and he was buried within the cloister after Vespers.
Like the woman of Bethany, I have broken my box of alabaster, and spilled all my precious ointment, which might have served for a lifetime of anointing, and I cannot renew the shattered receptacle, nor gather back the wasted fragrance; and so my heart must remain without spikenard or balm during its earthly sojourn.
As the enthusiasm which drew him to Jesus cooled, personal greed, with something of resentment at the cause of his disappointment, seem to have taken possession of him, and they led him on until the stinging rebuke which Jesus administered to the criticism of Mary at Bethany prompted the man to seek a bargain with the authorities which should insure him at least some profit in the general wreck of his hopes.
No, it was none of these things, not even the consecrated endearments of a plighted troth, the sweet rest of trust and hope, in the bliss of which we defy poverty, neglect, and hardship; it was not even this, the highest bliss of earth, but a sentiment perhaps more rare and scarcely less exalted, that which the apostle recognized in the holy salutation, and which the Gospel chronicles as the highest grace of those who believed in Jesus, the blessed balm of Bethany, the courageous vigilance which watched beside the tomb.
"Mary hath said he will return to-night to Bethany," Martha told Joseph. He raised his face to the sky saying, "The moon doth climb the heavens." "Yet ofttimes do guests tarry over the Pascal cup until the hour grow late. Methinks he will yet come, Joseph," said Lazarus. "So hopeth my heart. But from the silence I get no answer to my question, 'Will Israel cast off her Lord's anointed?"
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