Mark 3:33 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³³ He answered them, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ And He replied, Who are My mother and My brothers?

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ And he answereth them, and saith, Who is my mother and my brethren?

Common English Bible

³³ He replied, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ And responding to them, he said, "Who is my mother and my brothers?"

Mark 3:33 Cross References

Mark 6:3

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters living here among us?” And they were led to doubt His true identity.

Mark 3:21

When His relatives [or friends] heard about this [i.e., all that He was doing], they went out to take custody of Him [for safety reasons (?)], for people were saying, “He has lost his mind.”

2 Corinthians 5:16

So, from now on we will not regard any person by worldly standards, even though we [once] regarded Christ that way. But we will not regard Him [that way] anymore. [Note: Paul seems to be saying that before his conversion he viewed Christ on the basis of His family, His education, His position, etc., but since his conversion he does not view Him that way anymore].

John 2:4

So, Jesus said to her, “[My dear] woman, what do you want me to do [about it]? My time [i.e., to be revealed to people as the Messiah] has not yet come.”

Luke 2:49

And He replied to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I had to be in my Father’s house [i.e., the Temple, or, “about my Father’s affairs”]?”

Mark 3:32

Someone in the large crowd that was sitting around Him said to Him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

Mark 3:34

Then He looked out over those gathered around Him and said, “Look, [here is] my mother and my brothers!