Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Who

Deuteronomy 33:9

Who said of his father and mother,
‘I did not consider them’;
Nor did he acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For the priests observed Your word,
And kept Your covenant.
Luke 2:49
And He answered, “Why did you have to look for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
John 2:4
Jesus said to her, “[Dear] woman, what is that to you and to Me? My time [to act and to be revealed] has not yet come.”
2 Corinthians 5:16
So from now on we regard no one from a human point of view [according to worldly standards and values]. Though we have known Christ from a human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way.

Or

Mark 3:21
When His own family heard this they went to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He is out of His mind.”
Mark 6:3
Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are His sisters not here with us?” And they were [deeply] offended by Him [and their disapproval blinded them to the fact that He was anointed by God as the Messiah].
John 7:3
So His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do.

General references

Luke 8:19
Then Jesus’ mother and His brothers came up toward Him, but they could not reach Him because of the crowd.