Matthew 12:46
As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
47And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee.
Cross References
Matthew 2:11And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew 2:20Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.
Mark 2:21No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old garment: otherwise the new piecing taketh away from the old, and there is made a greater rent.
Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? are not also his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in regard of him.
Luke 2:33And his father and mother were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning him.
Luke 2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 12:39-46
The Pharisees Ask a Sign. 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this… Read the whole commentary →