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MATTHEW 12:50 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 12:49Matt 13
“For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. The definition of the kingdom family: whoever does the will of the Father in heaven. The family constituted by obedience to God is the most comprehensive and inclusive family — it crosses every ethnic, social, and natural boundary. The mother and sister and brother are all included: the family of Jesus receives every person regardless of gender, background, or natural kinship. This is the family the disciples are invited to enter and remain within.

Church Fathers on Matthew 12:50

Because He had spoken all the aforesaid things in the power of His Father’s majesty, therefore the Evangelist proceeds to tell what answer He made to one that told Him that His mother and His brethren waited for Him without; 'While he yet spake unto the people, his mother and brethren stood without desiring to see him.'

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century

We are to understand without doubt that this happened close upon the foregoing; for he begins to tell it with the words, 'And while he yet spake.' What can that 'yet' mean but that it was at the very time He spake the foregoing things?

Augustine · 4th century · De Cons. Ev., ii, 40

From this is taken one of Helvidius' propositions [margin note: Hieron. cont. Helvid. 14, et seq.], on the ground that mention is made in the Gospel of the brethren of the Lord. How says he, are they called brethren of the Lord, if they were not his brethren? But now it should be known that in divine Scripture men are said to be brethren in four different ways, by nature, by nation, by kindred, and by affection.

Jerome · 4th century
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