‘Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him.'
The certain village is almost certainly Bethany, which was less than two miles (three kilometres) from Jerusalem (John 11:18; John 12:1-3), but Luke deliberately avoids mentioning it so as not to disturb the sequence of the theological ‘journey to Jerusalem'. Here lived Jesus' friends Martha, Mary and Lazarus. And here He, and probably His disciples, was received into her house by Martha, certainly for a meal and possibly to stay. Note the stress on the fact that Martha ‘received Him'. Luke does not want her seen as anything but responsive to Jesus. She was delighted to see Him. (‘Into her house' is a probably a copyist's comment)