To read the texts click on the texts: Prov 21:1-6.10-13; Lk 8:19-21
Though this
text, which concerns the mother and brothers of Jesus, is found also in Mark
3,21-22 and 3,31-35 and Matthew 12,46-50, Luke narrates it quite differently
from both. In Mark 3,33 and Matthew 12,48 Jesus asks who his mother and brothers
are. In Luke, however, Jesus does not ask this question, but says simply when
told that his mother and brothers desire to see him, that his mother and
brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it. Luke thus gives a
positive thrust to the scene unlike Mark and Matthew. It might be said that
while in Mark and Matthew Jesus seems to reject his physical family and choose
instead the crowd (so Mark) or his disciples (so Matthew), in Luke he does not
do so. This means that though family relations with Jesus are not based on
physical relations but on the word of God, his physical family does indeed hear
the word of God and acts on it.
Monday 19 September 2022
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - Would Jesus point to you as a member of his family? Why?
We
might possess the name Christian because of our baptism, but this does not
necessarily mean that we belong to the family of Jesus. In order to belong what
is also necessary is putting into action what Jesus has taught
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