Matthew 12:46

Yet while he spake to the people, lo! his mother and his brethren stood withoutforth, seeking to speak with him.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

In Context

45Then he goeth (out), and taketh (back) with him seven other spirits worse than himself; and they enter [in], and dwell there. And the last things of that man be made worse than the former. So it shall be to this worst generation, (or And so the last things of that man be made worse than the first things. So it shall be with this evil generation).

47And a man said to him, Lo! thy mother and thy brethren stand withoutforth, seeking thee.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:11And they entered into the house, and found the child with Mary, his mother; and they felled down, and worshipped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, incense, and myrrh.

Matthew 2:20and said, Rise up, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they that sought the life of the child be dead.

Mark 2:21No man seweth a patch of new cloth to an old cloth, else he taketh away the new patch from the old, and a more breaking is made. (No one seweth a patch of new cloth onto an old cloak, because the new patch will tear away from the old, and a bigger hole will be made.)

Mark 6:3Whether this is not a carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and of Joseph and of Judas and of Simon? whether his sisters be not here with us? And they were offended in him, (or And they were offended by him, or they were contemptuous of him).

Luke 2:33And his father and his mother were wondering on these things, that were said of him (or that were said about their son).

Luke 2:51And he came down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his mother kept together all these words, and bare them 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 →

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