Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary (also referred to as Christ in the House of Martha and by other variant names) refers to an episode in the life of Jesus which appears only in Luke's Gospel (), and can be read immediately after the Parable of the Good Samaritan (). Jesus visits the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary of Bethany, the latter typically conflated in Catholic medieval tradition with Mary Magdalene, though the New Testament probably means a different person. According to the Gospel of Luke: As Jesus and
Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan use until a church could be built. In 1889, Wallis Nash, a lawyer from England who came to Corvallis to work on the railroad, constructed the area's first Episcopal church on the corner of Jefferson and 7th (later moved to Madison and 7th) using materials salvaged from the original school chapel. The same year, Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris proposed to name it the Church of the Good Samaritan, and the vestry approved. The building was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style. In 1960, after the congregation moved to a new facility, the original church was sold to the Elks and