Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mary' occurs 56 times in the standard works.

24 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'mary' in the standard works and contain 42.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mark 15:47-16:1 (4 in 2 verses)

 15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.





Matt. 27:56 (2 in 1 verse)

 27:56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.





Matt. 27:61 (2 in 1 verse)

 27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.





Matt. 28:1 (2 in 1 verse)

 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.





Mark 15:40 (2 in 1 verse)

 15:40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;





Luke 24:10 (2 in 1 verse)

 24:10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.





John 19:25 (2 in 1 verse)

 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.





Luke 1:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

 1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

 1:39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;





John 11:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

 11:2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)





John 11:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

 11:19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

 11:20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.





John 11:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

 11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.

 11:32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 0 0 0
NT 54 0 54
Matt. 11 0 11
Mark 8 0 8
Luke 17 0 17
John 15 0 15
Acts 2 0 2
Rom. 1 0 1
BM 2 0 2
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 56 0 56

John 11:1
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

John 11:2
(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

John 11:19
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

John 11:20
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

John 11:28
And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

John 11:31
The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.

John 11:32
Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

John 11:45
Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.

John 12:3
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

John 19:25
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

John 20:1
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

John 20:11
But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,

John 20:16
Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.

John 20:18
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.