Mark 3:34

34 Then he looked at those sitting around him and said, "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 Many people were sitting around Jesus, and they said to him, "Your mother and brothers are waiting for you outside."

33 Jesus asked, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

34 Then he looked at those sitting around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

35 My true brother and sister and mother are those who do what God wants."