Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 12:48
And he answering, said — Our Lord's knowing why they came, sufficiently justifies his seeming disregard of them.
And he answering, said — Our Lord's knowing why they came, sufficiently justifies his seeming disregard of them.
Verse Matthew 12:48. _WHO IS MY MOTHER? AND WHO ARE MY BRETHREN?_] The reason of this seeming disregard of his relatives was this: _they_ _came to seize upon him_, for _they thought he was distracted_...
See also Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19. HIS BRETHREN - There has been some difference of opinion about the persons who are referred to here, some supposing that they were children of Mary his mother, others th...
9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
The connexion of Matthew 12:43 is with Matthew 12:30, as is shown by Lk.; neutrality in the spiritual life cannot last. The point of the illustration is that the Jews had felt the influence of John an...
CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50) In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments, times and events on which the whole...
While he was still speaking to the crowds, look you, his mother and his brothers stood outside, for they were seeking an opportunity to speak to him. Someone said to him: "Look you, your mother and yo...
Jesus is sought by His Mother and Brethren. The true Mother and Brethren of Jesus Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21 The account is given with very slight variation by the three Synoptists. But see Mark 3:2...
JESUS IS SOUGHT BY HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN. THE TRUE MOTHER AND BRETHREN OF JESUS Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21 The account is given with very slight variation by the three Synoptists. But see Mark 3:21...
Ver 46. While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47. Then one said unto him, "Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without...
_THE INVITATION OF THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:46-50:_ Mary had other children after the birth of our Lord. Matthew 13:55 records, "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his br...
ΑΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part., см._ Matthew 12:38....
DISCOURSE: 1359 CHRIST’S REGARD TO HIS OBEDIENT FOLLOWERS Matthew 12:46. While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said...
WHO IS MY MOTHER? &C.— To suppose that our Lord here intends to put any slight on his mother, would be very absurd. He only took the opportunity of expressing his affection to his obedient disciples i...
Section 30 JESUS REFUSES TO ALLOW FLESHLY TIES TO BIND HIM (Parallels: Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21) TEXT: 12:46-50 46. While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brethr...
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM THAT TOLD HIM, WHO IS MY MOTHER? AND WHO ARE MY BRETHREN? Absorbed in...
42 “The ends of the earth,” an expression which does not include the sea, would describe any location on Eurasia or Africa not far from the further coast line. 43-45 Compare Luk_11:24-26 43 Actual i...
PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST 1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN (Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19). Jesus here, as on other occasions, declares Himself independent of family ties, and united by spiritual kinship to all who do God's will. _THE BRETHREN...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14 Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law: 1. The *disciples...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
τίς ἐστιν ἡ μήτηρ μου. One might have expected Jesus, out of delicacy, to have spoken only of His brethren, leaving the bearing of the question on His mother to be inferred. But the mention of her gav...
_The relatives of Jesus_ (Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21). Matthew and Mark place this incident in connection with the discourse occasioned by Pharisaic calumny. Luke gives it in a quite different connect...
OPPOSING OR DOING GOD'S WILL Matthew 12:38-50 It was an evil and adulterous age. It had no spiritual appreciation, and was intent on getting an outward and sensible sign. Nineveh itself would have co...
This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
CONSANGUINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35; & Luke 8:19; Luke 8:21;...
"While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. (47) Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desir...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
Matthew 12:48._Who is my mother? _These words were unquestionably intended to reprove Mary’s eagerness, and she certainly acted improperly in attempting to interrupt the progress of his discourse. (15...
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's p...
BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM THAT TOLD HIM,.... Of his mother and brethren being without doors, desiring, and waiting to speak to him, WHO IS MY MOTHER? AND WHO ARE MY BRETHREN? These questions...
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? Ver. 48. _Who is my mother, and who, &c._] This meekest lamb was stirred with a holy indignation at so absu...
_While he yet talked with the people_ While he was uttering these solemn truths, and giving these awful warnings, in the audience of the vast multitudes that were gathered around him: _behold, his mot...
WHO IS MY MOTHER? this question was designed to awaken attention, in order more usefully to communicate instruction....
BUT HE ANSWERED, AND SAID UNTO HIM THAT TOLD HIM, "WHO IS MY MOTHER? AND WHO ARE MY BRETHREN?...
CHRIST'S RELATIVES. Matthew 12:46...
We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
46-50 Christ's preaching was plain, easy, and familiar, and suited to his hearers. His mother and brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him, when they should have been standing within, desir...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:50"....
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV They say that He testifies Himself to His not having been born, when He asks, "Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? "[714] Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ...
Matthew 12:48 But G1161 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627) told G2036 (G5631) Him G846 Who...
‘But he answered and said to the one who told him, “Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?” And he stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!” ' Bu...
THE TRUE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD (12:46-50). In contrast with the house of old one-time Israel is the household of the new Israel of God, the ‘household of God' (Ephesians 2:19). In describing this episode M...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. These occurrences seem to have followed each other in immediate succession. Luke places the last one (Matthew 12:46-50) after the parable of the sower, but Mark gives the same order...
Matthew 12:48. WHO IS MY MOTHER? AND WHO ARE MY BRETHREN? Implying, not contempt nor carelessness, but that the family relation in His case was peculiar. He was more than man, or was not justified in...
Matthew 12:46 Jesus and His Brethren. Consider: I. the brethren of the boyhood of Jesus. Christ was born into the home and was to live in a brotherhood, with no opportunity for exclusiveness permitt...
CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of sel...
Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
48-49. WHO IS MY MOTHER? WHO ARE MY BROTHERS? The fact he is the Messiah supersedes ordinary relationships. LOOK! HERE ARE MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS! The strongest ties are the spiritual ties. Those...
_The same is My brother, and sister, and mother._ CHRISTIANS ARE CHRIST’S RELATIONS I. That Jesus here implies that the supreme relationships of life are moral 1. It is similar to that of the famil...
JESUS DESCRIBES HIS TRUE FAMILY MATTHEW 12:46-50; MARK 3:31-35; LUKE 8:19-21; MATTHEW 12:46 While he yet talked to the people, be
1-50 CHAPTER XII. _At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:46. HIS BRETHREN.—See on Matthew 13:55. DESIRING TO SPEAK WITH HIM.—A motive is assigned (Mark 3:21). It would seem that the Pharisees, on the pretext that Jesus had a demo...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew? Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
2 Corinthians 5:16; Deuteronomy 33:9; John 2:3; John 2:4; Luke 2:49;...