Mat 12:50 | KingComments | STEP | While the Lord is engaged in His service, His mother and His brothers want to speak to Him. Why would they want to speak to Him? Would they say to Him that He ought not to speak such harsh words? His reaction shows that they did not come to express their support for His words. Evidently his family cannot come to Him because he is surrounded by a crowd. Therefore, they pass their request on until someone close to Him can tell Him that His family wants to speak to Him. The Lord addresses the man who brings Him the request, and asks who His mother and His brothers are. With this question He indicates that the time of the natural bond between Him and His people, that is Israel according to the flesh, is over. His real relatives are His disciples. They have joined Him and follow Him and learn from Him. The only family members He can recognize are those who do the will of His Father in heaven. He recognizes exclusively the bond that is formed by the Word of God that someone receives in the heart and subsequently obeys.

‏ Matthew 12:50

The Mother and Brothers of the Lord

While the Lord is engaged in His service, His mother and His brothers want to speak to Him. Why would they want to speak to Him? Would they say to Him that He ought not to speak such harsh words? His reaction shows that they did not come to express their support for His words.

Evidently his family cannot come to Him because he is surrounded by a crowd. Therefore, they pass their request on until someone close to Him can tell Him that His family wants to speak to Him. The Lord addresses the man who brings Him the request, and asks who His mother and His brothers are. With this question He indicates that the time of the natural bond between Him and His people, that is Israel according to the flesh, is over.

His real relatives are His disciples. They have joined Him and follow Him and learn from Him. The only family members He can recognize are those who do the will of His Father in heaven. He recognizes exclusively the bond that is formed by the Word of God that someone receives in the heart and subsequently obeys.