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Mark 3:32

Listen to Mark 3:32
32 A crowd was sitting around Jesus. They told him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside. They are looking for you."

Mark 3:32 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 3:32

And the multitude sat about him
In a circle, all around him, to hear him preach; so that there was no such thing as the messenger coming near him; but the message being whispered from one to another, it came to those who sat nearest him:

and they said unto him, behold, thy mother and thy brethren without
seek for thee:
in five of Beza's ancient copies, and in his most ancient one, are added, and thy sisters: agreeably, Christ hereafter makes mention of sister, as well as mother and brother; (See Gill on Matthew 12:47), and so it is read in the Alexandrian copy.

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Mark 3:32 In-Context

30 Jesus said this because the teachers of the law were saying, "He has an evil spirit."
31 Jesus' mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to get him.
32 A crowd was sitting around Jesus. They told him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside. They are looking for you."
33 "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" he asked.
34 Then Jesus looked at the people sitting in a circle around him. He said, "Here is my mother! Here are my brothers!
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