Then came to him his mother and his brothers, and could not reach him for the crowd.
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Theophilus of Antioch
AD 184
But some take this to mean that certain men, hating Christ's teaching, and mocking at Him for His doctrine, said, Your mother and your brethren stand without wishing to see you; as if thereby to show His meanness of birth. And He therefore knowing their hearts gave them this answer, that meanness of birth harms not, but if a man, though of low birth, hear the word of God, He reckons him as His kinsman. Because however hearing only saves no one, but rather condemns, He adds, and does it; for it becomes us both to hear and todo. But by the word of God He means His own teaching. for all the words which He Himself spoke were from His Father.
