Jesus Names His True Family in a Crowded HouseBible World
3:34Mark 3:34
And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
It belongs just after Jesus for the second time healed a possessed man who was blind and dumb, when the Pharisees repeated the charge that He casts out devils through the prince of devils. It takes place when He is spending whole nights in prayer and whole days so crowded by people that He has no time even to eat, while His friends think He is wearing Himself out and losing His reason. At the same time the Pharisees charge that He casts out devils by the power of Satan, and He boldly denounces the scribes and Pharisees.
His brothers, the sons of Joseph, have no sympathy with His work, and are astonished and dismayed by reports of His life and labors. They feel the reproach of His relation to them, are alarmed at His bold statements and indignant at His denunciation, and decide He must be persuaded or forced to stop this labor. So they get Mary to join them to use His love for her to make Him more prudent.
He spoke it while teaching the people, when He was told that His mother and His brothers were outside desiring to see Him. Knowing what was in their hearts, He stretched forth His hand toward His disciples sitting about Him and called them His mother and His brethren. In doing so He identified those gathered around Him as His family.
The verse teaches that true kinship with Christ belongs to those who do the will of His Father in heaven, who are His brother and sister and mother. Spiritual kinship with Him is grounded in doing God's will and not merely in family ties. His words comfort believers by assuring them that they are His brother, sister, and mother.
The verse shows that His earthly family could not draw Him away from His work, for He was so devoted to carrying out His mission that He continued serving the people who came to Him.
It belongs just after Jesus for the second time healed a possessed man who was blind and dumb, when the Pharisees repeated the charge that He casts out devils through the prince of devils. It takes place when He is spending whole nights in prayer and whole days so crowded by people that He has no time even to eat, while His friends think He is wearing Himself out and losing His reason. At the same time the Pharisees charge that He casts out devils by the power of Satan, and He boldly denounces the scribes and Pharisees.
His brothers, the sons of Joseph, have no sympathy with His work, and are astonished and dismayed by reports of His life and labors. They feel the reproach of His relation to them, are alarmed at His bold statements and indignant at His denunciation, and decide He must be persuaded or forced to stop this labor. So they get Mary to join them to use His love for her to make Him more prudent.
He spoke it while teaching the people, when He was told that His mother and His brothers were outside desiring to see Him. Knowing what was in their hearts, He stretched forth His hand toward His disciples sitting about Him and called them His mother and His brethren. In doing so He identified those gathered around Him as His family.
The verse teaches that true kinship with Christ belongs to those who do the will of His Father in heaven, who are His brother and sister and mother. Spiritual kinship with Him is grounded in doing God's will and not merely in family ties. His words comfort believers by assuring them that they are His brother, sister, and mother.
The verse shows that His earthly family could not draw Him away from His work, for He was so devoted to carrying out His mission that He continued serving the people who came to Him.