Mark 3:33

But he answered them, “Who is my mother, or my brothers?”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?

In Context

32There was a crowd sitting around Jesus, and they said to him, “Behold, yoʋr mother, yoʋr brothers, and yoʋr sisters are outside looking for yoʋ.”

34And looking around in a circle at the people sitting there, he said, “Behold, these are my mother and my brothers!

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Cross References

Mark 6:3Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

John 2:4Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to yoʋ or to me? My hour has not yet come.”

2 Corinthians 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, we no longer know him in that way.

Matthew Henry on Mark 3:32-35

The Family of Christ. 31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him. 32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. 33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. Here is, 1. The… Read the whole commentary →

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