Every week, a highlighted illustration from our members-only website is posted to this blog and made available to the public, completely free of charge. Mitchell Dillon, the founder of the web's premier sermon illustration website, Illustration Exchange. If we strip this story to the very core, this isn’t a story about male and female. A lot of people have made a lot over the fact that Jesus allowed Mary, obviously a woman, to sit at his feet in the pose of a disciple.