Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
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Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
Looking at those seated in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!
And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
And looking round on them that sat round about him, he saith, Behold, my mother and my brethren!
And looking round at those who were seated about him, he said, See, my mother and my brothers!
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(Ambr in Luc. 6, 36. Bede ubi sup.) Being asked therefore by a message to go out, He declines, not as though He refused the dutiful service of His mother, but to show that He owes more to His Father's mysteries than to His mother's feelings. Nor does He rudely despise His brothers, but, preferring His spiritual work to fleshly relationship, He teaches us that religion is the bond of the heart rather than that of the body. Wherefore it goes on, And looking round about on them which sat about him, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren.
He does not therefore say this, as denying His mother, but as showing that He is worthy of honour, not only because she bore Christ, but on account of her possessing every other virtue.
Matthew Henry · Verses 31–35
It is a great comfort to all true Christians, that they are dearer to Christ than mother, brother, or sister as such, merely as relations in the flesh would have been, even had they been holy. Blessed be God, this great and gracious privilege is ours even now; for though Christ's bodily presence cannot be enjoyed by us, his spiritual presence is not denied us.
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