"Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press. And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it."
In today's quote, Jesus made the distinction between His earthly kinship to His mother and brothers and separated them from His spiritual kinship.
Jesus, in essence, declared that His true brothers and sisters are, and will be, those who accept His word and truly become, as He is, the children of God in mankind.
It is important to note that by accepting Christ as our savior and putting absolute faith in His righteousness as a substitute for our sins, forgiveness and redemption, we actually become the children of God, the true spiritual brothers and sisters of Jesus; "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name". (John 1:12)~
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