Matthew 12:48

World English Bible (2000)

But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 33:9 : 9 who said of his father, and of his mother, 'I have not seen him;' Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know his own children: For they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
  • Mark 3:32-33 : 32 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you." 33 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
  • Luke 2:49 : 49 He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"
  • Luke 2:52 : 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
  • John 2:3-4 : 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine." 4 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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  • Mark 3:31-35
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    31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

    32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."

    33He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

    34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

    35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

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    49He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

    50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."

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    46While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

    47One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you."

  • Luke 8:19-21
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    19His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.

    20It was told him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you."

    21But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."

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    55Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

    56Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?"

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    35For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

    36A man's foes will be those of his own household.

    37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

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    25Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

    26"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

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    25But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

    26Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"

    27Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

  • Luke 2:48-49
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    48When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."

    49He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"

  • 3Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.

  • 12After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

  • 42They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"

  • Matt 15:5-6
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    5But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"

    6he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

  • 4Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."

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    13One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

    14But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"

  • 29Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

  • 53They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

  • 27It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"

  • 56Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

  • 45In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

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    20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

    21He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."

  • 23But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."

  • 12then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

  • 15He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

  • 12"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • 19They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

  • 8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

  • 31His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

  • 3He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • 35Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

  • 10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

  • 42saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "Of David."