CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Mark 3:34 Commentaries: Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He said, "Behold My mother and My brothers!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newcom.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader.js'></script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/mark/3-34.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcom/mark/3-34.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/">Commentaries</a> > Mark 3:34</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/3-33.htm" title="Mark 3:33">◄</a> Mark 3:34 <a href="../mark/3-35.htm" title="Mark 3:35">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/alford/mark/3.htm" title="Henry Alford - Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary">Alford</a> • <a href="/commentaries/barnes/mark/3.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/bengel/mark/3.htm" title="Bengel's Gnomen">Bengel</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/mark/3.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/mark/3.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/mark/3.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/mark/3.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/mark/3.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/mark/3.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/mark/3.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/mark/3.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/mark/3.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/egt/mark/3.htm" title="Expositor's Greek">Exp Grk</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/mark/3.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/mark/3.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/mark/3.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/mark/3.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/mark/3.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/mark/3.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/mark/3-28.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/mark/3.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/icc/mark/3.htm" title="ICC NT Commentary">ICC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/mark/3.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/mark/3.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/mark/3.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/mark/3.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/mark/3.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/mark/3.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/mark/3.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/meyer/mark/3.htm" title="Meyer Commentary">Meyer</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/mark/3.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pnt/mark/3.htm" title="People's New Testament">PNT</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/mark/3.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/mark/3.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/mark/3.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/mark/3.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/mark/3.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/vws/mark/3.htm" title="Vincent's Word Studies">VWS</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/mark/3.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/mark/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(34) <span class= "bld">And he looked round about.</span>—Literally, <span class= "ital">looking round on those who sat in a circle round Him.</span> Another graphic touch of this Evangelist.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/mark/3.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>3:31-35 It is a great comfort to all true Christians, that they are dearer to Christ than mother, brother, or sister as such, merely as relations in the flesh would have been, even had they been holy. Blessed be God, this great and gracious privilege is ours even now; for though Christ's bodily presence cannot be enjoyed by us, his spiritual presence is not denied us.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/mark/3.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>See the notes at <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/12-46.htm">Matthew 12:46-50</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/mark/3.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Mr 3:31-35. His Mother and Brethren Seek to Speak with Him and the Reply. ( = Mt 12:46-50; Lu 8:19-21).<p>See on [1415]Mt 12:46-50. <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/mark/3.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/mark/3-31.htm" title="There came then his brothers and his mother, and, standing without, sent to him, calling him.">Mark 3:31</a>"</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/mark/3.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And he looked round about on them which sat about him,.... To find out his disciples among them, and point them out particularly, by stretching forth his hand towards them: and said, <p>behold my mother and my brethren: not in a natural, but in a spiritual sense; his mother, because, in regeneration, he was formed in them; his brethren, because, by adoption, his God was their God, his Father their Father; See Gill on <a href="/matthew/12-49.htm">Matthew 12:49</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/mark/3.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{6}</span> And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!</span><p>(6) The spiritual family is larger than the biological family.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/mark/3.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/mark/3-34.htm" title="And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brothers!">Mark 3:34</a>. <span class="greekheb">περιβλεψάμενος</span>, as in <a href="/mark/3-5.htm" title="And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.">Mark 3:5</a>, there in anger, here with a benign smile.—<span class="greekheb">κύκλῳ</span>: His eye swept the whole circle of His audience; a good Greek expression.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/mark/3.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">34</span>. <span class="ital">looked round</span>] Another graphic touch peculiar to the second Evangelist. See Introduction, p. 18. Our Lord repeated the saying here recorded on another occasion, <a href="/luke/8-21.htm" title="And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brothers are these which hear the word of God, and do it.">Luke 8:21</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/mark/3.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/mark/3-34.htm" title="And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brothers!">Mark 3:34</a>. <span class="greekheb">Κύκλῳ</span>, <span class="ital">in a circle round about</span>) With the utmost sweetness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/mark/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 34.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Looking round on them</span> <span class="greek">περιβλεψάμενος <ΒΤΤ·Ξομμενταρψ Ωορδ></span>which sat round about</span> <span class="cmt_word">him</span>. Here is one of the graphic touches of St. Mark, reproduced, it may be, from St. Peter. Our Lord's intellectual and loving eye swept the inner circle of his disciples. The twelve, of course, would be with him, and others with them. His enemies were not far off. But immediately about him were those who constituted his chosen ones. As man, he had his human affections and his earthly relationships; but as the Son of God, he knew no other relatives but God's children, to whom the performance of his will and the promotion of his glory are the first of all duties and the dominant principle of their lives. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> Mark 3:34<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/mark/3-34.htm">Mark 3:34 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../mark/3-33.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Mark 3:33"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Mark 3:33" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../mark/3-35.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Mark 3:35"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Mark 3:35" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>