Mark 3:34

34 He looked at the people sitting around him and said, "Look! Here are my mother and my brothers!

Mark 3:34 Meaning and 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).

Mark 3:34 In-Context

32 A crowd was sitting around Jesus, and they said to him, "Look, your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, and they want you."
33 Jesus answered, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"
34 He looked at the people sitting around him and said, "Look! Here are my mother and my brothers!
35 Whoever does what God wants is my brother, my sister, my mother."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.