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Hello and welcome to the Truth Seekers podcast.

A truth seeker is someone who wants to know the truth.

They search for what's true and they won't rest until they find it.

I am a truth seeker, and if you are too, then you've come to the right place where we will search for truth each week in the stories of the Bible.

Today I want to introduce you to a woman who knew just how important Jesus was and who understood better than anyone what he had come to do.

This woman's name was Mary. Not Mary the mother of Jesus, but Mary

of Bethany. John, chapter 12, tells us that Mary had a sister named Martha and a brother named

Lazarus. Jesus was good friends with Mary and Martha and Lazarus. He had visited them before. In fact, Jesus had even raised Lazarus from the dead. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus loved Jesus. But it was Mary who would spend time at his feet, just listening to his teachings and learning to hear what he had to say.

She would listen so intently that one time her sister Martha even became upset at her

because while Martha was busy cooking and cleaning and setting the table, Mary was in her

favorite spot, just listening to Jesus and all he had to say. She could sit at his feet for hours. She knew him, she loved him. He was one of her best friends. Something began to happen to Mary as she sat at the feet of Jesus. Time after time listening to him and paying careful attention whenever he spoke.

You see, Mary's eyes began to be opened, and she began to understand something that no one else

understood quite as fully as she did. Mary began to see that Jesus wasn't just any man. Her heart began to realize that he was the true

Messiah that they had been waiting for. And not only was he the Messiah, she understood that he had

come as a heavenly king to give his life for us. Not even the other disciples had understood this yet.

Do you know why Mary was one of the first to realize this? Because she listened. She spent time with

Jesus, listening to his words, learning from him, really hearing what he was saying. She heard when he said,

I am the way, the truth in the life, no one comes to the father but by me. She heard him when

he said he would have to die, but then be raised three days later. She understood that salvation

would come, forgiveness of sins would come, but they would come through Jesus' death.

Suddenly, Mary realized that Jesus would die and take all of her sins upon him on the cross.

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