Matthew 12:46
While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers were standing outside, asking to speak to him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
47Someone told him this, and Jesus replied:
Cross References
Matthew 2:11Entering the house, they saw the child with his mother, Mary, and fell at his feet and did homage to him. Then they unpacked their treasures, and offered to the child presents of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew 2:20“Awake, take the child and his mother, and go into the Land of Israel, for those who sought to take the child’s life are dead.”
Mark 2:21“No man ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it — the new from the old — and a worse rent is made.
Mark 6:3Is not he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? And are not his sisters, too, living here among us?” This proved a hindrance to their believing in him;
Luke 2:33While the child’s father and mother were wondering at what was said about him,
Luke 2:51However he went down with them to Nazareth, and submitted himself to their control; and his mother treasured all that was said 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 →