Mark 3:34
32 and a crowd was sitting around Him. “Look,” He was told, “Your mother and brothers are outside, asking for You.”
33 But Jesus replied, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”
Looking at those seated in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!
35 For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Looking at those seated in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!
- KJV
- And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
- WEB
- Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
- ASV
- And looking round on them that sat round about him, he saith, Behold, my mother and my brethren!
- DARBY
- And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren:
- BLB
- And having looked around at those sitting around Him in a circle, He says, “Behold, My mother and My brothers!
- ÅB
- Og han så på dem som satt omkring ham, og sa: Se, det er min mor og mine brødre!
- OTB
- Han så på dem som satt i en sirkel rundt Ham, og sa: «Her er Min mor og Mine brødre!
- B1930
- Og han så på dem som satt omkring ham, og sa: Se, det er min mor og mine brødre!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 12:49–50
Pointing to His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers.
Read in contextLuke 11:27–28
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”
Read in contextRomans 8:29
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
Read in contextMatthew 25:40–45
And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
Read in contextHebrews 2:11–12
For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Read in contextMatthew 28:10
“Do not be afraid,” said Jesus. “Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see Me.”
Read in contextJohn 20:17
“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
Read in contextSong of Solomon 5:1–2
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
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