Mark 3:33

33 And he answered them sayinge: who is my mother and my brethre?

Mark 3:33 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 3:33

And he answered them
The multitude that sat about him, and informed him of his mother and brethren being without, and desirous of speaking with him:

saying, who is my mother, or my brethren?
which is said not through ignorance or contempt, but either, as displeased with the interruption given him; or with a view to take an opportunity from hence of expressing his superior value to his spiritual relations; which looks with no favourable aspect on the superstitious notions, and veneration of the virgin Mary among the papists; (See Gill on Matthew 12:48).

Mark 3:33 In-Context

31 Then came his mother and his brethre and stode with out and sent vnto him and called him.

32 And the people sate aboute hym and sayde vnto him: beholde thy mother and thy brethre seke for the with out.

33 And he answered them sayinge: who is my mother and my brethre?

34 And he loked rounde about on his disciples which sate in compasse about hym and sayde: beholde my mother and my brethren.

35 For whosoever doeth ye will of God he is my brother my syster and mother.