Mark 3:33-35 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:31-35

Kinship to Jesus. I. FIRST THAT WHICH IS NATURAL , AFTERWARDS THAT WHICH IS SPIRITUAL . This is one order. Our spiritual being is built up on a natural basis. Slowly the bud of the higher being unfolds from the plant of earthly root. Through the home to the Church; by the love of mother and brother and sister, to the love of God and of all. II. FIRST THE SPIRITUAL , AFTERWARDS THE NATURAL . This is the order in another way. The end of our being is in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:31-35

Parallel passages: Matthew 12:46-50 ; Luke 8:19-21 .— The real relationship. I. NO SLIGHT INTENDED . The crowd that sat around prevented his relatives reaching him; they therefore sent a message, to which his reply cannot with any propriety be twisted into an expression of contempt. His obedience to his parents in the humble home at Nazareth during the years of youth, and his tender solicitude for his apparently widowed mother when, as he hung on the cross, he commended her to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:34

Looking round on them περιβλεψάμενος which sat round about him . Here is one of the graphic touches of St. Mark, reproduced, it may be, from St. Peter. Our Lord's intellectual and loving eye swept the inner circle of his disciples. The twelve, of course, would be with him, and others with them. His enemies were not far off. But immediately about him were those who constituted his chosen ones. As man, he had his human affections and his earthly relationships; but as the Son of God,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:35

Divine relationships. I. HOW FAR RESEMBLING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS . 1 . In laying down the condition of Divine relationship , Christ does not absolutely displace human relationships. It would have been hard for him so to do, since men were being addressed, and the relationships sustained by them would depend upon the religious sanction they might possess for the measure of honor and faithful observance they would receive. That the terms of human relationship were still... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Mark 3:31-35

See the notes at Matthew 12:46-50. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 3:31-35

Mark 3:31-35. There came then his brethren and his mother Having at length made their way through the crowd, so as to come to the door. His brethren are here named first, as being first and most earnest in the design of taking him; for neither did these of his brethren believe on him. They sent to him, calling him They sent one into the house, who called him aloud by name. Looking round on them who sat about him With the utmost sweetness: he said, Behold my mother and my brethren... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 3:34

looked round about = after casting His glance round. ADivine supplemental detail. Occ, only in Mark. sat = were sitting, Behold . Greek. ide. App-133 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 3:35

do = have done. the will. Greek. to thelema . See App-102 . God. App-98 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 3:33

And he answereth them and saith, Who is my mother and my brethren?Who is my mother and my brethren ... is another of the seven-word sayings which abound in Mark. In a few minutes, this writer counted fifty such seven-word jewels, and their total number might be well in excess of one hundred. Jesus would lay down in the next breath the principle that spiritual kinship with Jesus is far more important than fleshly relationship; and, if there had been no fleshly relationship with the brothers, it... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 3:34

And looking round on them that sat round about him, he saith, Behold, my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.This was called by Clarke "the adoption of the obedient"![12] It should never be lost sight of that, in the last analysis, it is obedience to the will of God that separates the saved from the lost. Undue stress upon the doctrine of justification by faith, making it read, "by faith only," has obscured this fact in... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:31-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:31-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:34

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:35

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Mark 3:31-35

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 3:31-35

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 3:34

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 3:35

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 3:33

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 3:34

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