Matthew 12:48

Chrysostom: "For He said not, Go and say unto her, She is not My mother, but continues His discourse to him that had brought Him word; as it follows; But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?"^[3]

Hilary of Poitiers: "And He cannot be held to have thought meanly of His mother, seeing that in His passion He evinced the most extreme carefulness for her."^[3]

Chrysostom: "But had He desired to disown His mother, He would have done it at the time when the Jews cast His birth in His teeth."^[3]

Jerome: "He did not then, as Marcion and Manichæus say, disown His mother, so as to be thought to be born of a phantasm, but He preferred His Apostles to His kindred, that we also in a comparison of our affections should set the spirit before the flesh."^[3]

Ambrose: "(in Luc. 8:21.) Nor does He overthrow the duty of filial submission, which is conveyed in the command, Honour thy father and thy mother, (Ex. 20:12.) but shows that He owes more to the mysteries and relationship of His Father, than of His mother; as it follows, And stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren."^[3]

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