Mark 3:34

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 3:31-35

3:31-35 His mother and his brothers came. They stood outside and sent someone in with a message to him. The crowd were sitting round him. "Look!" they said, "your mother and your brothers are outside inquiring for you." "Who" he answered, "is my mother and my brothers?" He looked round those who were sitting in a circle round about him. "Look!" he said, "my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will, he is my brother, my sister and my mother." Here Jesus lays down the conditions of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 3:34

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 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:1-35

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:7-35

Retirement. In the calm and successful prosecution of his work, Jesus has excited various feelings in the minds of the different classes around him. He has wrought many miracles—all of them miracles of mercy; almost all, so far as recorded, miracles of healing. Of necessity his presence is hailed by the throngs of needy and suffering ones, and "his name is as ointment poured forth" to the multitudes who have proved his rower to heal. These cannot be restrained from publishing his fame... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:31-35

Kindred of Christ. The feeling with regard to Christ had, by this time, become extremely strong. On the one hand, the people generally were deeply interested in his teaching, were eager spectators of his mighty works, and in many cases were much attached to himself. Hence the crowd which thronged the house where Jesus was engaged in teaching—a crowd so dense that none from the outside could approach the Master. On the other hand, the opposition to the Prophet of Nazareth was growing and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 3:31-35

The mother and the brethren of Jesus. The annoyance and hindrance of a moment are turned to eternal gain to the cause of truth. I. FAMILY INFLUENCES MAY INJURE SPIRITUAL USEFULNESS . They are powerful either way. They operate subtly and constantly. A tendency to narrowness in the family tie, which requires to be checked. Much of this influence which is adverse to Christian life is unconsciously so. Yet the intensest forms of hatred to truth and goodness are exhibited within... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Albert Barnes

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

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

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