Ever heard of a guy named Cornelius? If you haven’t, you need to learn about him.

He and a young Jewish woman named Mary from a village called Bethany were the only two people in the New Testament whose lives the Lord sought to memorialize (“to preserve the memory of”). That is, because of how they caught the attention of heaven the Lord exalted them that others might emulate them.

So the question is, “Why were these two memorialized?”

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