Mark 3:31

Jesus’ mother and younger siblings arrived. While they stood outside, they sent someone inside in order to call him outside.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.

In Context

30Jesus told them that because they refused to admit that the Holy Spirit was helping him to expel demons. Instead, they were saying, “An evil spirit is controlling him!”

32A crowd was sitting around Jesus. One of them said to him, “Listen/Hey, your mother and your younger brothers and sisters are outside, and they are wanting ◄to see/to talk with► you!”

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Cross References

Luke 8:19One day Jesus’ mother and his younger brothers came to see him, but they could not get near him because there was a large crowd around him in the house.

Matthew Henry on Mark 3:23-31

The Blasphemy of the Scribes. 22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils. 23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. 27 No man can enter into a… Read the whole commentary →

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