John Gill's Exposition on Mark 3:34

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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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