Mark 3:34
And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
KJV
καὶ περιβλεψάμενος τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν κύκλῳ καθημένους λέγει· ἴδε ἡ μήτηρ μου καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί μου.
Greek NT
Et circumspiciens eos, qui in circuitu ejus sedebant, ait : Ecce mater mea et fratres mei.
Vulgate
And looking round on them that sat round about him, he saith, Behold, my mother and my brethren!
ASV
And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith: Behold my mother and my brethren.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
κάθημαι
kathemai
verb · 89×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κύκλῳ
kuklo
noun · 8×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μήτηρ
meter
noun · 84×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
περιβλέπω
periblepo
verb · 7×
ἀδελφός
adelphos
noun · 343×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν κύκλῳ | WH/Treg/NIV: τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν κύκλῳ | RP: κύκλῳ τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν
- τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν κύκλῳ — SBLGNT
- τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν κύκλῳ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- κύκλῳ τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§500Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and sisters of Jesus.157 The Church has always understood these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin Mary. In fact James and Joseph, "brothers of Jesus", are the sons of another Mary, a disciple of Christ, whom St. Matthew significantly calls "the other Mary".158 They a…
Cross-references
- Luke 11:27 — And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
- Mark 8:33 — But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
- Matt 12:49 — And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
- Matt 12:49 — And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
- Matt 25:40 — And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Matt 25:40 — And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Rom 8:29 — For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.