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Matthew 12:46

Weymouth NT

While He was still addressing the people His mother and His brothers were standing on the edge of the crowd desiring to speak to Him.

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The circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ were these. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they were united in marriage, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

So some one told Him, »Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, and desire to speak to you.«

Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judah?

So they entered the house; and when they saw the babe with His mother Mary, they prostrated themselves and did Him homage, and opening their treasure-chests offered gifts to Him–gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

»Rise from sleep, and take the child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead.«

No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it– the new from the old– and a worse hole would be made.

Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?« So they turned angrily away.

But why is this honour done me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

A light to shine upon the Gentiles, And the glory of Thy people Israel.«

And while the child's father and mother were wondering at the words of Symeon concerning Him,

while all who heard Him were astonished at His intelligence and at the answers He gave.

But they did not understand the significance of these words.

»To you,« He replied, »it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but all others are taught by parables, in order that they may see and yet not see, and may hear and yet not understand.

Now standing close to the cross of Jesus were His mother and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum–He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

His mother said to the attendants, »Whatever he tells you to do, do it.«

When however His brothers had gone up to the Festival, then He also went up, not openly, but as it were privately.

So His brothers said to Him, »Leave these parts and go into Judaea, that not only we but your disciples also may witness the miracles which you perform.

For even His brothers were not believers in Him.

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do–and the Lord's brothers and Peter?

I saw none of the other Apostles, except James, the Lord's brother.




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