Mark 3:34

“And he looked round about on them which sat about him, etc..] 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 “<401249>Matthew 12:49”).”

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“Looking round on them who sat about him - With the utmost sweetness; He said, Behold my mother and my brethren - In this preference of his true disciples even to the Virgin Mary, considered merely as his mother after the flesh, he not only shows his high and tender affection for them, but seems designedly to guard against those excessive and idolatrous honours, which he foresaw would in after ages be paid to her. Next: Mark Chapter 4”

“Behold: Psa 22:22; Sol 4:9, Sol 4:10, Sol 5:1, Sol 5:2; Mat 12:49, Mat 12:50, Mat 25:40-45, Mat 28:10; Luk 11:27, Luk 11:28; Joh 20:17; Rom 8:29; Heb 2:11, Heb 2:12 Mark 3:35”