Mark 3:31
Jesus’ True Family Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.
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- Luke 8:19-21 : 19 Jesus’ True Family Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd. 20 So he was told,“Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.” 21 But he replied to them,“My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
- Matt 12:46-50 : 46 Jesus’ True Family While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him. 47 Someone told him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.” 48 To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” 49 And pointing toward his disciples he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
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32 A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”
33 He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
34 And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!
35 For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Luke 8:19-213 verses88%
19 Jesus’ True Family Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.
20 So he was told,“Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”
21 But he replied to them,“My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
- Matt 12:46-505 verses88%
46 Jesus’ True Family While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.
47 Someone told him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.”
48 To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
49 And pointing toward his disciples he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!
50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Matt 13:54-563 verses74%
54 Then he came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said,“Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?
55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother named Mary? And aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
56 And aren’t all his sisters here with us? So where did he get all this?”
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30 (because they said,“He has an unclean spirit”).
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12 Cleansing the Temple After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
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3 So Jesus’ brothers advised him,“Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.
- Mark 3:20-212 verses72%
20 Jesus and Beelzebul Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.
21 When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said,“He is out of his mind.”
- Mark 6:3-42 verses72%
3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.
4 Then Jesus said to them,“A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.”
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5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)
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29 Healings at Simon’s House Now as soon as they left the synagogue, they entered Simon and Andrew’s house, with James and John.
30 Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.
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1 Rejection at Nazareth Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
- John 19:25-273 verses70%
25 Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother,“Woman, look, here is your son!”
27 He then said to his disciple,“Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.
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56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
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1 Turning Water into Wine Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
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42 and they said,“Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,‘I have come down from heaven’?”
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48 When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him,“Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”
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28 And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately,“The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
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14 All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
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3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him,“They have no wine left.”
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30 So they left the town and began coming to him.
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7 Crowds by the Sea Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,
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51 Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.
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21 Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Then he called them.
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20 A Request for James and John Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.
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33 The whole town gathered by the door.
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37 So the news about him spread into all areas of the region.
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44 but(because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
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10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.
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20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
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30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)
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23 But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him,“Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”
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37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
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33 So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.