After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
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Alcuin of York
AD 804
Our Lord’s brethren are the relations of Mary and Joseph, not the sons of Mary and Joseph. For not only the blessed Virgin, but Joseph also, the witness of her chastity, abstained from all conjugal intercourse.
And He went up to Jerusalem. The Gospels mention two journeys of our Lord to Jerusalem, one in the first year of His preaching, before John was sent to prison, which is the journey now spoken of; the other in the year of His Passion. Our Lord has set us here an example of careful obedience to the Divine commands. For if the Son of God fulfilled the injunctions of His own law, by keeping the festivals, like the rest, with what holy zeal should we servants prepare for and celebrate them? .
Or Capernaum, we may interpret “amost beautiful village,” and so it signifies the world, to which the Word of the Father camedown.
