What happened next?

[qchi]

Luke 8:19-21…someone said to Jesus, “your mother and brothers are standing outside and want to see you”. Jesus said to them all “my mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it”.

Why did Jesus speak like that of his Mother, Mary? we all know that Mary obeyed the word of God (she bore Christ didn’t she?) or was he telling people to follow Mary’s example?

It sounds to me like he didn’t care, because the scriptures didn’t say whether he later went to meet them or not, even if he did, why the statement?

Was he referring to the last time Mary and Joseph had gone looking for him, when he was 12 yrs, and he had told them that he was in his Father’s house. and yet Mary hadn’t “obeyed” the word and still searched for him?

This passage is unclear and I would really like some light shed on it. thanks.

 

[sailorman76]

Who knows? What I believe is that Jesus was stating that all that listen to his words and obey his teachings are his family also.

 

[NHInsider]

I think He was making it into a “teachable moment” - the point being that He desired all people to enter into a relationship with Him that is as intimate as the one He had with His mother and the rest of His family - that genetics is not as important as faith. And yes, obviously, Mary has both, but even for her, the obedient faith relationship is more important that the genetic relationship (in fact, the genetic relationship depended upon her act of faith, her fiat). He makes a similar point in Luke 11:27-28. In both cases He turns the focus back on His listeners, who cannot aspire to being His mother or otherwise related to Him but who can choose to be obedient followers - as she was.

My guess is that, since the story ends at this point in all three synoptics, that He did in fact go out to see His mother and probably reassured her that He was all right, since she was worried that He wasn’t getting a chance to eat.

 

[qchi]

I think He was making it into a “teachable moment” - the point being that He desired all people to enter into a relationship with Him that is as intimate as the one He had with His mother and the rest of His family - that genetics is not as important as faith. And yes, obviously, Mary has both, but even for her, the obedient faith relationship is more important that the genetic relationship (in fact, the genetic relationship depended upon her act of faith, her fiat). He makes a similar point in Luke 11:27-28. In both cases He turns the focus back on His listeners, who cannot aspire to being His mother or otherwise related to Him but who can choose to be obedient followers - as she was.

thanks. makes a little sense now.

My guess is that, since the story ends at this point in all three synoptics, that He did in fact go out to see His mother and probably reassured her that He was all right, since she was worried that He wasn’t getting a chance to eat. Evidently, because all he ever ate was bread and fish and fish and bread . I do hope he went to see her though.

 

[qchi]

Who knows? What I believe is that Jesus was stating that all that listen to his words and obey his teachings are his family also.
and probably that whenever we looked for him he will acknowledge us all and not just his family, hmmm?

 

[Danno2281]

Note carefulloy what Christ said: “those who hear the Word of God and keep it” It is the same Luke who tells us that Mary replied: “Let it be done to me according to your word” and from that moment began to nurture the Word of God within her womb. Far from disparaging His mother, He is crediting her with being the first of those genuinely related to Him, not by blood but by surrender to His Father’s will.

 

[DianJo]

Jesus was not speaking disrespectfully about his mother and brothers.

He was making a point: From footnotes of NAB: “The family of Jesus is not constituted by physical relationship with him but by obedience to the word of God.”
In Luke’s gospel, Mary has already been presented as the “handmaid of the Lord” who fulfills all the requirements for belonging to the eschatological family of the Jesus."

He was actually speaking very well of them!

Just like in John’s gospel when Jesus gives Mary over to John, he says, “Woman, behold your son.” Then he said to John, “Behold your Mother.”
Alot of people think that calling his mother by the term “Woman” was disrespectful. He was actually referencing his mother with OT Scripture in Genesis 3:15 in recalling her part in our salvation from the very beginning of time - her obedience again. She will be known as the “New Eve.”