Matthew 12:48 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 12:48

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

KJV

But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

On the Flesh of Christ (220)

But whenever a dispute arises about the nativity, all who reject it as creating a presumption in favour of the reality of Christ's flesh, wilfully deny that God Himself was born, on the ground that He asked, "Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? " Let, therefore, Apelles hear what was our answer to Marcion in that little work, in which we challenged his own (favourite) gospel to the proof, even that the material circumstances of that remark (of the Lord's) should be considered.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? - The reason of this seeming disregard of his relatives was this: they came to seize upon him, for they thought he was distracted. See Mar 3:33.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

The beginning of this passage is one of those places which strikingly illustrate the truth of Old Testament history. Our Lord speaks of the Queen of the South as a real, true person, who had lived and died. He refers to the story of Jonah, and his miraculous preservation in the whale’s belly, as undeniable matters of fact. Let us remember this if we hear men professing to believe the writers of the New Testament, and yet sneering at the things recorded in the Old Testament as if they were fables.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
ἀποκριθεὶς	apokritheis	answering	G611 →
εἶπεν	eipen	He said	G2036 →
τῷ	tō	to the [one]	G3588 →
λέγοντι	legonti	telling	G3004 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to Him;	G846 →
τίς	tis	Who	G5101 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
μήτηρ	mētēr	mother	G3384 →
μου	mou	of Mine	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τίνες	tines	who	G5101 →
εἰσὶν	eisin	are	G1510 →
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
Matthew 10:37
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
leads to
- Luke 14:26
  “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Luke 2:52
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
leads to
- Luke 2:40
  And the Child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him.
- Proverbs 3:3–4
  Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- 1 Samuel 2:26
  And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.
- Romans 14:18
  For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
- Luke 1:80
  And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until the time of his public appearance to Israel.
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.”

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Matthew

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Matthew