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Matthew 12:46-50. New International Version. Jesus’ Mother and Brothers. 46 While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. 47 Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”
New King James Version. Behold Your Mother. 25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” 27 Then He said to the disciple ...
Jesus honored his mother in life, and even as he died, he spent one of his last breaths to make arrangements for the one who bore and raised him.
Jesus spent time with His mother (John 2:1-12). Since Joseph is not mentioned after the trip to Jerusalem (Luke 2), most scholars believe that he died sometime during Jesus’ teen years. Therefore, we know more about Jesus’ interaction with His mother.
In Jesus’ final moments on the cross, the apostle John tells us of a tender moment shared between Jesus and His mother, who’d watched as her son suffered and died for the sins of the world.
Why does Jesus ask, “Who are my mother and brothers?” in Matthew 12:48? Answer. We learn who Jesus’ mother and brothers are from a few separate passages. Of course, Jesus was the Son of God (Matthew 16:16), and His earthly parents were Joseph and Mary (Matthew 1:16).
Jesus returned with his mother to the lowly Nazareth home, and was subject to her. In recognizing his relation to God as his heavenly Father, he did not become any less the child of his earthly mother.
When Jesus saw his mother and his favorite disciple with her, he said to his mother, "This man is now your son." Douay-Rheims Bible When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
"When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, 'Woman, behold your son.' Then he said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother'" (John 19: 26-27). Throughout the Church's rich history and Tradition great theologians, mystics, popes and saints have all viewed John as representing you and me.