Then came to him his mother and his brothers, and could not reach him for the crowd.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Think what it was, when the whole people stood by, and were hanging upon His mouth, (for His teaching had already begun,) to withdraw Him away from them. Our Lord accordingly answers as it were rebuking them, as it follows, And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are they which hear the word of God, and do it
Now He does not say this by way of reproof to His mother, but to greatly assist her, for if He was anxious for others to beget in them a just opinion of Himself, much more wasHe for His mother. And He had not raised her to such a height if she were always to expect tobe honored by Him as a son, and never to consider Him as her Lord.
