Mark - 3:34



34 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

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Explanation and meaning of Mark 3:34.

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And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren:
And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, 'Lo, my mother and my brethren!
And, fixing His eyes on the people who were sitting round Him in a circle, He said,
And looking round at those who were seated about him, he said, See, my mother and my brothers!
And looking around at those who were sitting all around him, he said: "Behold, my mother and my brothers.
Then he looked around on the people sitting in a circle around him, and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

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(6) And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
(6) The spiritual family is larger than the biological family.

And he looked round about on them which sat about him,.... To find out his disciples among them, and point them out particularly, by stretching forth his hand towards them: and said,
behold my mother and my brethren: not in a natural, but in a spiritual sense; his mother, because, in regeneration, he was formed in them; his brethren, because, by adoption, his God was their God, his Father their Father; See Gill on Matthew 12:49.

Looking round on them who sat about him - With the utmost sweetness; He said, Behold my mother and my brethren - In this preference of his true disciples even to the Virgin Mary, considered merely as his mother after the flesh, he not only shows his high and tender affection for them, but seems designedly to guard against those excessive and idolatrous honours, which he foresaw would in after ages be paid to her.

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