Matthew 12:46

Matthew chapter 12 · verse 46 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

Context

v.45Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.

v.46This passage

v.47And one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Galatians 1:19

    But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:5

    Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • Matthew 13:55

    Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?

  • John 19:25

    These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

  • Matthew 2:20

    Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child’s life.

  • John 7:10

    But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.