Mark 3:32-34

J.B. Phillips New Testament

The new relationships in the kingdom

^31-32 Then his mother and his brothers arrived. They stood outside the house and sent a message asking him to come out to them. There was a crowd sitting round him when the message was brought telling him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

³³ Jesus replied, “And who are really my mother and my brothers?”

³⁴ And he looked round at the faces of those sitting in a circle about him.