Mark 3:33 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 3:33

But Jesus replied, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he answereth them, and saith, Who is my mother and my brethren?

KJV

And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 3 (604)

For Jesus, our Creator and Redeemer, pretends not to know His mother, and indicates who is His mother and who are His relatives not through kinship of the flesh, but through union of the spirit, saying: "Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And he answered them,.... The multitude that sat about him, and informed him of his mother and brethren being without, and desirous of speaking with him: saying, who is my mother, or my brethren? which is said not through ignorance or contempt, but either, as displeased with the interruption given him; or with a view to take an opportunity from hence of expressing his superior value to his spiritual relations; which looks with no favourable aspect on the superstitious notions, and veneration of the virgin Mary among the papists; See Gill on Mat 12:48.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

In the verses which immediately precede this passage, we see our blessed Lord accused by the Scribes of being in league with the devil. They said, "He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casts he out devils." In the verses we have now read, we find that this absurd charge of the Scribes was not all that Jesus had to endure at this time. We are told that "Jesus' mother and brothers arrived at the house where he was teaching. They stood outside and sent word for him to come out and talk with them."

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
ἀποκριθεὶς	apokritheis	answering	G611 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	them	G846 →
λέγει·	legei	He says;	G3004 →
τίς	tis	Who	G5101 →
ἐστιν	estin	are	G1510 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
μήτηρ	mētēr	mother	G3384 →
μου	mou	of Mine	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ἀδελφοί	adelphoi	brothers	G80 →
μου;	mou	of Mine?	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 2:49
“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
leads to
- John 6:38
  For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
- John 8:29
  He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
- Malachi 3:1
  “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He…
- Psalms 40:8
  I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- John 4:34
  Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
Through
2 Corinthians 5:16
So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
leads to
- Colossians 3:11
  Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- John 6:63
  The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- Philippians 3:7–8
  But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark