Mark 3:34

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

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 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.