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Matthew 12:47-50

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12:47 ¹ Someone² told him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting³ to speak to you.” 12:48 To the one who had said this, Jesus⁴ replied,⁵ “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” 12:49 And pointing⁶ toward his disciples he said, “Here⁷ are my mother and my brothers! 12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is⁸ my brother and sister and mother.”

¹tc A few ancient mss and versions lack this verse (א* B L Γ pc ff¹ k sy^s,c sa). The witness of א and B is especially strong, but internal considerations override this external evidence. Both v. 46 and 47 end with the word λαλῆσαι (“to speak”), so early scribes probably omitted the verse through homoioteleuton. The following verses make little sense without v. 47; its omission is too hard a reading. Thus v. 47 was most likely part of the original text.

²tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

³tn Grk “seeking.”

⁴tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Grk “And answering, he said to the one who had said this.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) at the beginning of the clause has not been translated.

⁶tn Grk “extending his hand.”

⁷tn Grk “Behold my mother and my brothers.”

⁸tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.

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