Mat 12:48 | CPDV | STEP | But responding to the one speaking to him, he said, “Which one is my mother, and who are my brothers?”

Matthew 12:48

48 But responding to the one speaking to him, he said, “Which one is my mother, and who are my brothers?” ^{▼▼12:48 Who is my mother?: This was not spoken by way of slighting his mother, but to show that we are never to suffer ourselves to be taken from the service of God, by any inordinate affection to our earthly parents: and that which our Lord chiefly regarded in his mother, was her doing the will of his Father in heaven. It may also further allude to the reprobation of the Jews, his carnal kindred, and the election of the Gentiles.(Challoner)}