While
Rejected by Israel, His "kinsmen according to the flesh"
(compare (Romans 9:3);
our Lord intimates the formation of the new family of faith which, overstepping mere racial claims, receives "whosoever" will be His disciple. (Matthew 12:49); (John 6:28).
Verse Matthew 12:46. HIS _MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN_] These are supposed to have been the _cousins_ of our Lord, as the word _brother_ is frequently used among the Hebrews in this sense. But there are...
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...
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...
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...
TALKED. was talking. PEOPLE. multitudes. STOOD. were standing. DESIRING TO SPEAK. seeking to speak. Their _avowed_ purpose. But in Mark 3:21; Mark 3:31 their _real_ purpose was to "lay hold on Him",...
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...
ΛΑΛΟΎΝΤΟΣ _praes. act. part. (temp.) gen. sing., см._ Matthew 12:22. _Gen. abs._: "в то время как Он говорил" ΕΊΣΤΉΚΕΙΣΑΝ _plperf. ind. act._ ΪΣΤΗΜΙ (G2476) стоять, со _знач. impf._ Они стояли, пока...
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...
BEHOLD, HIS MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN— See ch. Matthew 13:55. Mary was attended by her sister's children, who were the _cousins,_ or, according to the Hebrew dialect, the _brethren_ of Christ, (see on c...
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...
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. WHILE HE YET TALKED TO THE PEOPLE, BEHOLD, HIS MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN (SEE THE NOT...
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...
HIS MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN. — Who were these “brethren of the Lord?” The question is one which we cannot answer with any approximation to certainty. The facts in the Gospel records are scanty. In wha...
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'...
_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...
ἀδελφοὶ, brothers in the natural sense, sons of Mary by Joseph? Presumably, but an unwelcome hypothesis to many on theological grounds. εἱστήκεισαν, pluperfect, but with sense of imperfect (Fritzsche)...
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...
(10) While he yet talked to the people, behold, [his] mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. (10) Christ teaches by his own example that all things ought to be set aside i...
_His mother and his brethren; i.e. his mother and relations. (Witham) --- See verse 55 of the next chapter. (Challoner)_...
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...
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...
WHILE HE YET TALKED TO THE PEOPLE,.... Upon these subjects, which so nearly concerned the Scribes and Pharisees, and which could not fail of drawing upon him their resentment and ill will. BEHOLD HIS...
While he yet talked to the people, behold, _his_ mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Ver. 46. _Desiring to speak with him_] Either out of curiosity or ambition, as Ambr...
_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...
CHRIST'S RELATIVES. Matthew 12:46...
WHILE HE YET TALKED TO THE PEOPLE, BEHOLD, HIS MOTHER AND HIS BRETHREN STOOD WITHOUT, DESIRING TO SPEAK WITH HIM....
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"....
Matthew 12:46 While G2089 He G846 still G1161 talking G2980 (G5723) multitudes G3793 behold G2400 (G5628) His...
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...
‘ While he was yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood outside, seeking to speak to him.' Once again the connecting link is intended to connect the ideas, rather than to...
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 12:46. WHILE HE WAS YET SPEAKING TO THE MULTITUDES. This definite expression fixes the occasion. HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN. On the brethren of our Lord, see chap. Matthew 13:55. STOOD, ‘or we...
HIS MOTHER AND HIS BROTHERS (η μητηρ κα ο αδελφο αυτου). Brothers of Jesus, younger sons of Joseph and Mary. The charge of the Pharisees that Jesus was in league with Satan was not believed by the d...
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...
46-47. HIS MOTHER AND BROTHERS. On his brothers, see Matthew 13:55. At this time, his brothers did not yet believe he was the Messiah....
_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...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:46 MOTHER AND... BROTHERS. There is no mention of “father,” which may indicate that Joseph had died by this time. Joseph is never mentioned after the trip to Jerusalem when...
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...
1 Corinthians 9:5; Acts 1:14; Galatians 1:19; John 2:12; John 7:10;...
His brethren — His kinsmen: they were the sons of Mary, the wife of Cleopas, or Alpheus, his mother's sister; and came now seeking to take him, as one beside himself, Mark 3:21. Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19....
Observe here, 1. The verity of Christ's human nature; he had affinity and consanguinity with men, persons near in blood to him, called his brethren, that is, his cousin-germans. 2. That the holy virg...