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Verse	Translation	Text
Mt 12:46	Strong Concordance	While [2089] he [846] yet [1161] talked [2980] to the people [3793], behold [2400], his mother [3384] and [2532] his [846] brethren [80] stood [2476] without [1854], desiring [2212] to speak [2980] with him [846].
	King James	While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren--(See on Mat 13:55-56). stood without, desiring to speak with him--"and could not come at Him for the press" (Luk 8:19). For what purpose these came, we learn from Mar 3:20-21. In His zeal and ardor He seemed indifferent both to food and repose, and "they went to lay hold of Him" as one "beside Himself." Mark (Mar 3:32) says graphically, "And the multitude sat about Him"--or "around Him."

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren--(See on Mat 13:55-56).

stood without, desiring to speak with him--"and could not come at Him for the press" (Luk 8:19). For what purpose these came, we learn from Mar 3:20-21. In His zeal and ardor He seemed indifferent both to food and repose, and "they went to lay hold of Him" as one "beside Himself." Mark (Mar 3:32) says graphically, "And the multitude sat about Him"--or "around Him."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
See also Mar 3:31-35; Luk 8:19-21. His brethren - There has been some difference of opinion about the persons who are referred to here, some supposing that they were children of Mary his mother, others that they were the children of Mary, the wife of Cleophas or Alpheus, his "cousins," and called "brethren" according to the customs of the Jews. The natural and obvious meaning is, however, that they were the children of Mary his mother. See also Mar 6:3. To this opinion, moreover, there can be no valid objection. Mat 12:48 Who is my mother? ... - There was no want of affection or respect in Jesus toward his mother, as is proved by his whole life. See especially Luk 2:51, and Joh 19:25-27. This question was asked merely to "fix the attention" of the hearers and to prepare them for the answer - that is, to show them who sustained toward him the nearest and most tender relation. To do this he pointed to his disciples. Dear and tender as were the ties which bound him to his mother and brethren, yet those which bound him to his disciples were more tender and sacred. How great was his love for his disciples, when it was more than even that for his mother! And what a bright illustration of his own doctrine, that we ought to forsake father, and mother and friends, and houses, and lands, to be his followers! Remarks On Matthew 12 1. Our Saviour has taught us the right use of the Sabbath, Mat 12:1-13. His conduct was an explanation of the meaning of the fourth commandment. By his example we may learn what may be done. He himself performed only those works on the Sabbath which were strictly necessary for life, and those which tended to benefit the poor, the afflicted, and needy. Whatever work is done on the Sabbath that is not for these ends must be wrong. All labor that can as well be done on another day all which is not for the support of life, or to aid the ignorant, poor, and sick. must be wrong. This example justifies teaching the ignorant, supplying the wants of the poor, instructing children in the precepts of religion, teaching those to read in Sunday schools who have no other opportunity for learning, and visiting the sick, when we go not for formality, or "to save time on some other day," but to do them good. 2. The Sabbath is of vast service to mankind. It was made for man - not for man to violate or profane, or to be a day of mere idleness, but to improve to his spiritual and eternal good. Where people are employed through "six" days in worldly occupations, it is kind toward them to give them one day particularly to prepare for eternity. Where there is no Sabbath there is no religion. This truth, from the history of the world, will bear to be recorded in letters of gold - "that true religion will exist among men only when they strictly observe the Sabbath." They, therefore, who do most to promote the observance of the Sabbath, are doing most for religion and the welfare of man. In this respect Sunday school teachers may do more, perhaps, than all the world besides for the best interests of the world. 3. In the conduct of Christ Mat 12:14-15 we have an illustration of the nature of Christian prudence. He did not throw himself needlessly into danger. He did not remain to provoke opposition. He felt that his time was not come, and that his life, by a prudent course, should be preserved. He therefore withdrew. Religion requires us to sacrifice our lives rather than deny the Saviour. To throw our lives away when, with good conscience, they might be preserved, is self-murder. 4. The rejection of the gospel in one place is often the occasion of its being received elsewhere, Mat 12:15. People may reject it to their own destruction; but somewhere it "will" be preached, and will be the power of God unto salvation. The wicked cannot drive it out of the world. They only secure their own ruin, and, against their will, benefit and save others. To reject it is like turning a beautiful and fertilizing stream from a man's own land. He does not, he cannot dry it up. "It will flow somewhere else." He injures himself and perhaps benefits multitudes. People never commit so great foolishness and wickedness, and so completely fail in what they aim at, as in rejecting the gospel. A man, hating the light of the sun, might get into a cave or dungeon, and be in total darkness; but the sun will continue to shine, and millions, in spite of him, will be benefited by it. So it is with the gospel. 5. Christ was mild, quiet, retiring not clamorous or noisy, Mat 12:19. So is all religion. There is no piety in noise; if there was, then thunder and artillery would be piety. Confusion and discord are not religion. Loud words and shouting are not religion. Religion is love, reverence, fear, holiness, a deep and awful regard for the presence of God, profound apprehensions of the solemnities of eternity, imitation of the Saviour. It is still. It is full of awe - an awe too great to strive, or cry, or lift up the voice in the streets. If people ever should be overawed and filled with emotions "repressing" noise and clamor, it should be when they approach "the great God." 6. The feeble may trust to Jesus, Mat 12:20. A child of any age, an ignorant person, the poorest man, may come, and he shall in nowise be east out. It is a sense of our weakness that Jesus seeks. Where that is "he" will strengthen us, and we shall not fail. 7. Grace will not be extinguished, Mat 12:20. Jesus, where he finds it in the feeblest degree, will not destroy it. He will cherish it. He will kindle it to a flame. It will burn brighter and brighter, until it "glows like that of the pure spirits above." 8. People are greatly prone to ascribe all religion to the devil, Mat 12:24. Anything that is unusual, anything that confounds them, anything that troubles their consciences, they ascribe to fanaticism, overheated zeal, and Satan. It has always been so. It is sometimes an easy way to stifle their own convictions, and to bring religion into contempt. "Somehow or other," like the Pharisees, infidels must account for revivals of religion, for striking instances of conversion, and for the great and undeniable effects which the gospel produces. How easy to say that it is "delusions," and that it is the work of the devil! How easy to show at once the terrible opposition of their own hearts to God, and to boast themselves in their own wisdom, in having found a cause so simple for all the effects which religion produces in the world! How much pains, also, men will take to secure their own perdition, rather than to admit it to be possible that Christianity is true! 9. We see the danger of blasphemy - the danger of trifling with the influences of the Holy Spirit, Mat 12:31-32. Even if we do not commit the unpardonable sin, yet we see that all trifling with the Holy Spirit is a sin very near to God, and attended with infinite danger. He that "laughs away" the thoughts of death and eternity; he that seeks the society of the frivolous and trifling, or of the sensual and profane, for the express purpose of driving away these thoughts; and he that struggles directly against his convictions, and is resolved that he will not submit to God, may be, for aught he knows, making his damnation sure. Why should God "ever" return when a man has "once" rejected the gospel? Who would be to blame if the sinner is then lost? Assuredly not God. None but himself. Children sometimes do this. Then is the time, the very time, when they should begin to love God and Jesus Christ. Then the Spirit also strives. Many "have then" given their hearts to him and become Christians. Many more might have done so, if they had not grieved away the Spirit of God. 10. We see the danger of rejecting Christ, Mat 12:38-42. All past ages, all the wicked and the good, the foolish and the wise, will rise up in the day of judgment, and condemn us, if we do not believe the gospel. No people, heretofore, have seen so much light as we do in this age. And no people can be so awfully condemned as those who, in a land of light, of Sundays and Sunday schools, reject Christ and go to hell. Among the 120,000 children of Nineveh Jon 4:11 there was not one single Sunday school. There was no one to tell them of God and the Saviour. They have died and gone to judgment. Children now living will die also, and go to meet them in the day of judgment. How will they condemn the children of this age, if they do not love the Lord Jesus Christ! 11. Sinners, when awakened, if they grieve away the Spirit of God, become worse than before, Mat 12:43-45. They are never as they were before. Their hearts are harder, their consciences are more seared, they have a more bitter hatred of religious people, and they plunge deeper and deeper into sin. Seven devils often dwell where one did, and God gives the man over to blindness of mind and hardness of heart. This shows, also, the great guilt and danger of grieving the Holy Spirit. 12. We see the love of Christ for his followers, Mat 12:46-50. Much as he loved his mother, yet he loved his disciples more. He still loves them. He will always love them. His heart is full of affection for them. And though poor, and despised, and unknown to the rich and mighty, yet to Jesus they are dearer than mother, and sisters, and brothers.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

See also Mar 3:31-35; Luk 8:19-21.

His brethren - There has been some difference of opinion about the persons who are referred to here, some supposing that they were children of Mary his mother, others that they were the children of Mary, the wife of Cleophas or Alpheus, his "cousins," and called "brethren" according to the customs of the Jews. The natural and obvious meaning is, however, that they were the children of Mary his mother. See also Mar 6:3. To this opinion, moreover, there can be no valid objection.

Mat 12:48

Who is my mother? ... - There was no want of affection or respect in Jesus toward his mother, as is proved by his whole life.

See especially Luk 2:51, and Joh 19:25-27. This question was asked merely to "fix the attention" of the hearers and to prepare them for the answer - that is, to show them who sustained toward him the nearest and most tender relation. To do this he pointed to his disciples. Dear and tender as were the ties which bound him to his mother and brethren, yet those which bound him to his disciples were more tender and sacred. How great was his love for his disciples, when it was more than even that for his mother! And what a bright illustration of his own doctrine, that we ought to forsake father, and mother and friends, and houses, and lands, to be his followers!

Remarks On Matthew 12

1. Our Saviour has taught us the right use of the Sabbath, Mat 12:1-13. His conduct was an explanation of the meaning of the fourth commandment. By his example we may learn what may be done. He himself performed only those works on the Sabbath which were strictly necessary for life, and those which tended to benefit the poor, the afflicted, and needy. Whatever work is done on the Sabbath that is not for these ends must be wrong. All labor that can as well be done on another day all which is not for the support of life, or to aid the ignorant, poor, and sick. must be wrong. This example justifies teaching the ignorant, supplying the wants of the poor, instructing children in the precepts of religion, teaching those to read in Sunday schools who have no other opportunity for learning, and visiting the sick, when we go not for formality, or "to save time on some other day," but to do them good.

2. The Sabbath is of vast service to mankind. It was made for man - not for man to violate or profane, or to be a day of mere idleness, but to improve to his spiritual and eternal good. Where people are employed through "six" days in worldly occupations, it is kind toward them to give them one day particularly to prepare for eternity. Where there is no Sabbath there is no religion. This truth, from the history of the world, will bear to be recorded in letters of gold - "that true religion will exist among men only when they strictly observe the Sabbath." They, therefore, who do most to promote the observance of the Sabbath, are doing most for religion and the welfare of man. In this respect Sunday school teachers may do more, perhaps, than all the world besides for the best interests of the world.

3. In the conduct of Christ Mat 12:14-15 we have an illustration of the nature of Christian prudence. He did not throw himself needlessly into danger. He did not remain to provoke opposition. He felt that his time was not come, and that his life, by a prudent course, should be preserved. He therefore withdrew. Religion requires us to sacrifice our lives rather than deny the Saviour. To throw our lives away when, with good conscience, they might be preserved, is self-murder.

4. The rejection of the gospel in one place is often the occasion of its being received elsewhere, Mat 12:15. People may reject it to their own destruction; but somewhere it "will" be preached, and will be the power of God unto salvation. The wicked cannot drive it out of the world. They only secure their own ruin, and, against their will, benefit and save others. To reject it is like turning a beautiful and fertilizing stream from a man's own land. He does not, he cannot dry it up. "It will flow somewhere else." He injures himself and perhaps benefits multitudes. People never commit so great foolishness and wickedness, and so completely fail in what they aim at, as in rejecting the gospel. A man, hating the light of the sun, might get into a cave or dungeon, and be in total darkness; but the sun will continue to shine, and millions, in spite of him, will be benefited by it. So it is with the gospel.

5. Christ was mild, quiet, retiring not clamorous or noisy, Mat 12:19. So is all religion. There is no piety in noise; if there was, then thunder and artillery would be piety. Confusion and discord are not religion. Loud words and shouting are not religion. Religion is love, reverence, fear, holiness, a deep and awful regard for the presence of God, profound apprehensions of the solemnities of eternity, imitation of the Saviour. It is still. It is full of awe - an awe too great to strive, or cry, or lift up the voice in the streets. If people ever should be overawed and filled with emotions "repressing" noise and clamor, it should be when they approach "the great God."

6. The feeble may trust to Jesus, Mat 12:20. A child of any age, an ignorant person, the poorest man, may come, and he shall in nowise be east out. It is a sense of our weakness that Jesus seeks. Where that is "he" will strengthen us, and we shall not fail.

7. Grace will not be extinguished, Mat 12:20. Jesus, where he finds it in the feeblest degree, will not destroy it. He will cherish it. He will kindle it to a flame. It will burn brighter and brighter, until it "glows like that of the pure spirits above."

8. People are greatly prone to ascribe all religion to the devil, Mat 12:24. Anything that is unusual, anything that confounds them, anything that troubles their consciences, they ascribe to fanaticism, overheated zeal, and Satan. It has always been so. It is sometimes an easy way to stifle their own convictions, and to bring religion into contempt. "Somehow or other," like the Pharisees, infidels must account for revivals of religion, for striking instances of conversion, and for the great and undeniable effects which the gospel produces. How easy to say that it is "delusions," and that it is the work of the devil! How easy to show at once the terrible opposition of their own hearts to God, and to boast themselves in their own wisdom, in having found a cause so simple for all the effects which religion produces in the world! How much pains, also, men will take to secure their own perdition, rather than to admit it to be possible that Christianity is true!

9. We see the danger of blasphemy - the danger of trifling with the influences of the Holy Spirit, Mat 12:31-32. Even if we do not commit the unpardonable sin, yet we see that all trifling with the Holy Spirit is a sin very near to God, and attended with infinite danger. He that "laughs away" the thoughts of death and eternity; he that seeks the society of the frivolous and trifling, or of the sensual and profane, for the express purpose of driving away these thoughts; and he that struggles directly against his convictions, and is resolved that he will not submit to God, may be, for aught he knows, making his damnation sure. Why should God "ever" return when a man has "once" rejected the gospel? Who would be to blame if the sinner is then lost? Assuredly not God. None but himself. Children sometimes do this. Then is the time, the very time, when they should begin to love God and Jesus Christ. Then the Spirit also strives. Many "have then" given their hearts to him and become Christians. Many more might have done so, if they had not grieved away the Spirit of God.

10. We see the danger of rejecting Christ, Mat 12:38-42. All past ages, all the wicked and the good, the foolish and the wise, will rise up in the day of judgment, and condemn us, if we do not believe the gospel. No people, heretofore, have seen so much light as we do in this age. And no people can be so awfully condemned as those who, in a land of light, of Sundays and Sunday schools, reject Christ and go to hell. Among the 120,000 children of Nineveh Jon 4:11 there was not one single Sunday school. There was no one to tell them of God and the Saviour. They have died and gone to judgment. Children now living will die also, and go to meet them in the day of judgment. How will they condemn the children of this age, if they do not love the Lord Jesus Christ!

11. Sinners, when awakened, if they grieve away the Spirit of God, become worse than before, Mat 12:43-45. They are never as they were before. Their hearts are harder, their consciences are more seared, they have a more bitter hatred of religious people, and they plunge deeper and deeper into sin. Seven devils often dwell where one did, and God gives the man over to blindness of mind and hardness of heart. This shows, also, the great guilt and danger of grieving the Holy Spirit.

12. We see the love of Christ for his followers, Mat 12:46-50. Much as he loved his mother, yet he loved his disciples more. He still loves them. He will always love them. His heart is full of affection for them. And though poor, and despised, and unknown to the rich and mighty, yet to Jesus they are dearer than mother, and sisters, and brothers.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
While Rejected by Israel, His "kinsmen according to the flesh" (compare (Rom 9:3); our Lord intimates the formation of the new family of faith which, overstepping mere racial claims, receives "whosoever" will be His disciple. (Mat 12:49-50); (Joh 6:28-29).

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
His brethren - His kinsmen: they were the sons of Mary, the wife of Cleopas, or Alpheus, his mother's sister; and came now seeking to take him, as one beside himself, Mar 3:21. Mar 3:31; Luk 8:19.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
His mother and his brethren - These are supposed to have been the cousins of our Lord, as the word brother is frequently used among the Hebrews in this sense. But there are others who believe Mary had other children beside our Lord and that these were literally his brothers, who are spoken of here. And, although it be possible that these were the sons of Mary, the wife of Cleopas or Alpheus, his mother's sister, called his relations, Mar 3:31; yet it is as likely that they were the children of Joseph and Mary, and brethren of our Lord, in the strictest sense of the word. See on Mat 13:55 (note).

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³² And [2532] the multitude [3793] sat [2521] about [4012] him [846], and [1161] they said [2036] unto him [846], Behold [2400], thy [4675] mother [3384] and [2532] thy [4675] brethren [80] without [1854] seek for [2212] thee [4571].

²⁰ And [2532] the multitude [3793] cometh together [4905] again [3825], so that [5620] they [846] could [1410] not [3361] so much as [3383] eat [5315] bread [740].
²¹ And [2532] when his [846] friends [3844] heard [191] of it, they went out [1831] to lay hold [2902] on him [846]: for [1063] they said [3004], [3754] He is beside himself [1839].

¹⁹ Then [1161] came [3854] to [4314] him [846] his mother [3384] and [2532] his [846] brethren [80], and [2532] could [1410] not [3756] come [4940] at him [846] for [1223] the press [3793].

⁵⁵ Is [2076] not [3756] this [3778] the carpenter's [5045] son [5207]? is [3004] not [3780] his [846] mother [3384] called [3004] Mary [3137]? and [2532] his [846] brethren [80], James [2385], and [2532] Joses [2500], and [2532] Simon [4613], and [2532] Judas [2455]?
⁵⁶ And [2532] his [846] sisters [79], are they [1526] not [3780] all [3956] with [4314] us [2248]? Whence [4159] then [3767] hath this man [5129] all [3956] these things [5023]?

⁴⁶ While [2089] he [846] yet [1161] talked [2980] to the people [3793], behold [2400], his mother [3384] and [2532] his [846] brethren [80] stood [2476] without [1854], desiring [2212] to speak [2980] with him [846].
⁴⁷ Then [1161] one [5100] said [2036] unto him [846], Behold [2400], thy [4675] mother [3384] and [2532] thy [4675] brethren [80] stand [2476] without [1854], desiring [2212] to speak [2980] with thee [4671].
⁴⁸ But [1161] he answered [611] and said [2036] unto him that told [2036] him [846], Who [5101] is [2076] my [3450] mother [3384]? and [2532] who [5101] are [1526] my [3450] brethren [80]?
⁴⁹ And [2532] he stretched forth [1614] his [846] hand [5495] toward [1909] his [846] disciples [3101], and said [2036], Behold [2400] my [3450] mother [3384] and [2532] my [3450] brethren [80]!
⁵⁰ For [1063] whosoever [3748] [302] shall do [4160] the will [2307] of my [3450] Father [3962] which [3588] is in [1722] heaven [3772], the same [846] is [2076] my [3450] brother [80], and [2532] sister [79], and [2532] mother [3384].

⁴³ [1161] When [3752] the unclean [169] spirit [4151] is gone [1831] out of [575] a man [444], he walketh [1330] through [1223] dry [504] places [5117], seeking [2212] rest [372], and [2532] findeth [2147] none [3756].
⁴⁴ Then [5119] he saith [3004], I will return [1994] into [1519] my [3450] house [3624] from whence [3606] I came out [1831]; and [2532] when he is come [2064], he findeth [2147] it empty [4980], swept [4563], and [2532] garnished [2885].
⁴⁵ Then [5119] goeth he [4198], and [2532] taketh [3880] with [3326] himself [1438] seven [2033] other [2087] spirits [4151] more wicked [4191] than himself [1438], and [2532] they enter in [1525] and dwell [2730] there [1563]: and [2532] the last [2078] state of that [1565] man [444] is [1096] worse than [5501] the first [4413]. Even so [3779] shall it be [2071] also [2532] unto this [5026] wicked [4190] generation [1074].

¹¹ And should not I spare [02347] Nineveh [05210], that great [01419] city [05892], wherein are [03426] more [07235] than sixscore [08147] [06240] thousand [07239] persons [0120] that cannot discern [03045] between their right hand [03225] and their left hand [08040]; and also much [07227] cattle [0929]?

³⁸ Then [5119] certain [5100] of the scribes [1122] and [2532] of the Pharisees [5330] answered [611], saying [3004], Master [1320], we would [2309] see [1492] a sign [4592] from [575] thee [4675].
³⁹ But [1161] he answered [611] and said [2036] unto them [846], An evil [4190] and [2532] adulterous [3428] generation [1074] seeketh after [1934] a sign [4592]; and [2532] there shall no [3756] sign [4592] be given [1325] to it [846], but [1508] the sign [4592] of the prophet [4396] Jonas [2495]:
⁴⁰ For [1063] as [5618] Jonas [2495] was [2258] three [5140] days [2250] and [2532] three [5140] nights [3571] in [1722] the whale's [2785] belly [2836]; so [3779] shall the Son [5207] of man [444] be [2071] three [5140] days [2250] and [2532] three [5140] nights [3571] in [1722] the heart [2588] of the earth [1093].
⁴¹ The men [435] of Nineveh [3536] shall rise [450] in [1722] judgment [2920] with [3326] this [5026] generation [1074], and [2532] shall condemn [2632] it [846]: because [3754] they repented [3340] at [1519] the preaching [2782] of Jonas [2495]; and [2532], behold [2400], a greater than [4119] Jonas [2495] is here [5602].
⁴² The queen [938] of the south [3558] shall rise up [1453] in [1722] the judgment [2920] with [3326] this [5026] generation [1074], and [2532] shall condemn [2632] it [846]: for [3754] she came [2064] from [1537] the uttermost parts [4009] of the earth [1093] to hear [191] the wisdom [4678] of Solomon [4672]; and [2532], behold [2400], a greater than [4119] Solomon [4672] is here [5602].

³¹ Wherefore [1223] [5124] I say [3004] unto you [5213], All manner of [3956] sin [266] and [2532] blasphemy [988] shall be forgiven [863] unto men [444]: but [1161] the blasphemy [988] against the Holy Ghost [4151] shall [863] not [3756] be forgiven [863] unto men [444].
³² And [2532] whosoever [3739] [302] speaketh [2036] a word [3056] against [2596] the Son [5207] of man [444], it shall be forgiven [863] him [846]: but [3739] whosoever [1161] [302] speaketh [2036] against [2596] the Holy [40] Ghost [4151], it shall [863] not [3756] be forgiven [863] him [846], neither [3777] in [1722] this [5129] world [165], neither [3777] in [1722] the world to come [3195].

²⁴ But [1161] when the Pharisees [5330] heard [191] it, they said [2036], This [3778] fellow doth [1544] not [3756] cast out [1544] devils [1140], but [1508] by [1722] Beelzebub [954] the prince [758] of the devils [1140].

²⁰ A bruised [4937] reed [2563] shall he [2608] not [3756] break [2608], and [2532] smoking [5188] flax [3043] shall he [4570] not [3756] quench [4570], till [2193] [302] he send forth [1544] judgment [2920] unto [1519] victory [3534].

¹⁹ He shall [2051] not [3756] strive [2051], nor [3761] cry [2905]; neither [3761] shall any man [5100] hear [191] his [846] voice [5456] in [1722] the streets [4113].

¹⁵ But [1161] when Jesus [2424] knew [1097] it, he withdrew himself [402] from thence [1564]: and [2532] great [4183] multitudes [3793] followed [190] him [846], and [2532] he healed [2323] them [846] all [3956];

¹⁴ Then [1161] the Pharisees [5330] went out [1831], and held [2983] a council [4824] against [2596] him [846], how [3704] they might destroy [622] him [846].
¹⁵ But [1161] when Jesus [2424] knew [1097] it, he withdrew himself [402] from thence [1564]: and [2532] great [4183] multitudes [3793] followed [190] him [846], and [2532] he healed [2323] them [846] all [3956];

¹ At [1722] that [1565] time [2540] Jesus [2424] went [4198] on the sabbath day [4521] through [1223] the corn [4702]; and [1161] his [846] disciples [3101] were an hungred [3983], and [2532] began [756] to pluck [5089] the ears of corn [4719], and [2532] to eat [2068].
² But [1161] when the Pharisees [5330] saw [1492] it, they said [2036] unto him [846], Behold [2400], thy [4675] disciples [3101] do [4160] that which [3739] is [1832] not [3756] lawful [1832] to do [4160] upon [1722] the sabbath day [4521].
³ But [1161] he said [2036] unto them [846], Have ye [314] not [3756] read [314] what [5101] David [1138] did [4160], when [3753] he [846] was an hungred [3983], and [2532] they [3326] that were with him [846];
⁴ How [4459] he entered into [1525] [1519] the house [3624] of God [2316], and [2532] did eat [5315] the shewbread [740] [4286], which [3739] was [2258] not [3756] lawful [1832] for him [846] to eat [5315], neither for [3761] them which [3326] were with him [846], but [1508] only [3441] for the priests [2409]?
⁵ Or [2228] have ye [314] not [3756] read [314] in [1722] the law [3551], how that [3754] on the sabbath days [4521] the priests [2409] in [1722] the temple [2411] profane [953] the sabbath [4521], and [2532] are [1526] blameless [338]?
⁶ But [1161] I say [3004] unto you [5213], That [3754] in this place [5602] is one [2076] greater than [3187] the temple [2411].
⁷ But [1161] if [1487] ye had known [1097] what [5101] this meaneth [2076], I will have [2309] mercy [1656], and [2532] not [3756] sacrifice [2378], ye would [302] not [3756] have condemned [2613] the guiltless [338].
⁸ For [1063] the Son [5207] of man [444] is [2076] Lord [2962] even [2532] of the sabbath day [4521].
⁹ And [2532] when he was departed [3327] thence [1564], he went [2064] into [1519] their [846] synagogue [4864]:
¹⁰ And [2532], behold [2400], there was [2258] a man [444] which had [2192] his hand [5495] withered [3584]. And [2532] they asked [1905] him [846], saying [3004], Is it lawful [1487] [1832] to heal [2323] on the sabbath days [4521]? that [2443] they might accuse [2723] him [846].
¹¹ And [1161] he said [2036] unto them [846], What [5101] man [444] shall there be [2071] among [1537] you [5216], that [3739] shall have [2192] one [1520] sheep [4263], and [2532] if [1437] it [5124] fall [1706] into [1519] a pit [999] on the sabbath day [4521], will he [2902] not [3780] lay hold [2902] on it [846], and [2532] lift it out [1453]?
¹² How much [4214] then [3767] is a man [444] better than [1308] a sheep [4263]? Wherefore [5620] it is lawful [1832] to do [4160] well [2573] on the sabbath days [4521].
¹³ Then [5119] saith [3004] he to the man [444], Stretch forth [1614] thine [4675] hand [5495]. And [2532] he stretched it forth [1614]; and [2532] it was restored [600] whole [5199], like as [5613] the other [243].

²⁵ Now [1161] there stood [2476] by [3844] the cross [4716] of Jesus [2424] his [846] mother [3384], and [2532] his [846] mother's [3384] sister [79], Mary [3137] the wife [3588] of Cleophas [2832], and [2532] Mary [3137] Magdalene [3094].
²⁶ When Jesus [2424] therefore [3767] saw [1492] his mother [3384], and [2532] the disciple [3101] standing by [3936], whom [3739] he loved [25], he saith [3004] unto his [846] mother [3384], Woman [1135], behold [2400] thy [4675] son [5207]!
²⁷ Then [1534] saith he [3004] to the disciple [3101], Behold [2400] thy [4675] mother [3384]! And [2532] from [575] that [1565] hour [5610] that disciple [3101] took [2983] her [846] unto [1519] his own [2398] home.

⁵¹ And [2532] he went down [2597] with [3326] them [846], and [2532] came [2064] to [1519] Nazareth [3478], and [2532] was [2258] subject [5293] unto them [846]: but [2532] his [846] mother [3384] kept [1301] all [3956] these [5023] sayings [4487] in [1722] her [846] heart [2588].

⁴⁸ But [1161] he answered [611] and said [2036] unto him that told [2036] him [846], Who [5101] is [2076] my [3450] mother [3384]? and [2532] who [5101] are [1526] my [3450] brethren [80]?

³ Is [2076] not [3756] this [3778] the carpenter [5045], the son [5207] of Mary [3137], [1161] the brother [80] of James [2385], and [2532] Joses [2500], and [2532] of Juda [2455], and [2532] Simon [4613]? and [2532] are [1526] not [3756] his [846] sisters [79] here [5602] with [4314] us [2248]? And [2532] they were offended [4624] at [1722] him [846].

¹⁹ Then [1161] came [3854] to [4314] him [846] his mother [3384] and [2532] his [846] brethren [80], and [2532] could [1410] not [3756] come [4940] at him [846] for [1223] the press [3793].
²⁰ And [2532] it was told [518] him [846] by certain which said [3004], Thy [4675] mother [3384] and [2532] thy [4675] brethren [80] stand [2476] without [1854], desiring [2309] to see [1492] thee [4571].
²¹ And [1161] he answered [611] and said [2036] unto [4314] them [846], My [3450] mother [3384] and [2532] my [3450] brethren [80] are [1526] these [3778] which [3588] hear [191] the word [3056] of God [2316], and [2532] do [4160] it [846].

³¹ There came [2064] then [3767] his [846] brethren [80] and [2532] his mother [3384], and [2532], standing [2476] without [1854], sent [649] unto [4314] him [846], calling [5455] him [846].
³² And [2532] the multitude [3793] sat [2521] about [4012] him [846], and [1161] they said [2036] unto him [846], Behold [2400], thy [4675] mother [3384] and [2532] thy [4675] brethren [80] without [1854] seek for [2212] thee [4571].
³³ And [2532] he answered [611] them [846], saying [3004], Who [5101] is [2076] my [3450] mother [3384], or [2228] my [3450] brethren [80]?
³⁴ And [2532] he looked [4017] round about [2945] on them which [3588] sat [2521] about [4012] him [846], and said [3004], Behold [2396] my [3450] mother [3384] and [2532] my [3450] brethren [80]!
³⁵ For [1063] whosoever [3739] [302] shall do [4160] the will [2307] of God [2316], the same [3778] is [2076] my [3450] brother [80], and [2532] my [3450] sister [79], and [2532] mother [3384].

²⁸ Then [3767] said they [2036] unto [4314] him [846], What [5101] shall we do [4160] [4160], that [2443] we might work [2038] the works [2041] of God [2316]?
²⁹ Jesus [2424] answered [611] and [2532] said [2036] unto them [846], This [5124] is [2076] the work [2041] of God [2316], that [2443] ye believe [4100] on [1519] him [3739] whom [1565] he hath sent [649].

⁴⁹ And [2532] he stretched forth [1614] his [846] hand [5495] toward [1909] his [846] disciples [3101], and said [2036], Behold [2400] my [3450] mother [3384] and [2532] my [3450] brethren [80]!
⁵⁰ For [1063] whosoever [3748] [302] shall do [4160] the will [2307] of my [3450] Father [3962] which [3588] is in [1722] heaven [3772], the same [846] is [2076] my [3450] brother [80], and [2532] sister [79], and [2532] mother [3384].

³ For [1063] I [1473] could wish [2172] that myself [846] were [1511] accursed [331] from [575] Christ [5547] for [5228] my [3450] brethren [80], my [3450] kinsmen [4773] according [2596] to the flesh [4561]:

¹⁹ Then [1161] came [3854] to [4314] him [846] his mother [3384] and [2532] his [846] brethren [80], and [2532] could [1410] not [3756] come [4940] at him [846] for [1223] the press [3793].

³¹ There came [2064] then [3767] his [846] brethren [80] and [2532] his mother [3384], and [2532], standing [2476] without [1854], sent [649] unto [4314] him [846], calling [5455] him [846].

²¹ And [2532] when his [846] friends [3844] heard [191] of it, they went out [1831] to lay hold [2902] on him [846]: for [1063] they said [3004], [3754] He is beside himself [1839].

³¹ There came [2064] then [3767] his [846] brethren [80] and [2532] his mother [3384], and [2532], standing [2476] without [1854], sent [649] unto [4314] him [846], calling [5455] him [846].