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46–50. JESUS IS SOUGHT BY HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN. THE TRUE MOTHER AND BRETHREN OF JESUS
Mar 3:31-35; Luk 8:19-21
The account is given with very slight variation by the three Synoptists. But see Mar 3:21; Mar 3:30-31, where a motive is suggested—‘When his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on Him: for they said, He is beside Himself’ (Mat 12:21). It would seem that the Pharisees, on the pretext that Jesus had a demon, had persuaded His friends to secure Him. This was another device to destroy Jesus, see Mat 12:14; Mat 12:38.