Was sitting about him (εκαθητο περ αυτον). They sat in a circle (κυκλω) around Jesus with the disciples forming a sort of inner ci…

Thy mother and thy brethren.—Many manuscripts of high authority add, and Thy sisters, and so explain the emphati…

Theophylact of Ohrid: Because the Lord's relatives had come to seize Him, thinking He was out of His mind, His mother, comp…

When Jesus was told that his mother and his brothers were looking for him, he responded by asking, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” Then with a…

And the multitude sat about him
In a circle, all around him, to hear him preach; so that there was no such thing as …

It is a great comfort to all true Christians that they are dearer to Christ than mother, brother, or sister, in their capacity merely as earthly re…