Mark 3:33

33 et respondens eis ait quae est mater mea et fratres mei

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 et veniunt mater eius et fratres et foris stantes miserunt ad eum vocantes eum

32 et sedebat circa eum turba et dicunt ei ecce mater tua et fratres tui foris quaerunt te

33 et respondens eis ait quae est mater mea et fratres mei

34 et circumspiciens eos qui in circuitu eius sedebant ait ecce mater mea et fratres mei

35 qui enim fecerit voluntatem Dei hic frater meus et soror mea et mater est