Mar 3:31 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Mark 3:31-35: 3:31-35 Mark resumes from 3:20-21 . • Your mother and your brothers: Jesus’ brothers are commonly understood to have been children born to Joseph and Mary after Jesus’ birth (see also 6:3 ; Matt 1:25 ; 12:46 ; John 19:26-27 ); some interpreters instead believe that they were either Joseph’s children by an earlier marriage or Jesus’ cousins, due to the Roman Catholic belief that Mary was perpetually a virgin.

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Summary for Mark 3:31-35: 3:31-35 ^a Mark resumes from 3:20-21 ^b.

• Your mother and your brothers: Jesus’ brothers are commonly understood to have been children born to Joseph and Mary after Jesus’ birth (see also 6:3 ^c; Matt 1:25 ^d; 12:46 ^e; John 19:26-27 ^f); some interpreters instead believe that they were either Joseph’s children by an earlier marriage or Jesus’ cousins, due to the Roman Catholic belief that Mary was perpetually a virgin.