OUR LORD'S MOTHER AND BRETHREN COME TO HIM Luke viii. 19. 19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press. Luke xi. 27, 28*. 27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. 28 But he said, Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. Luke viii. 20, 21. 20 And it was told him by certain, which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring * See Ministry, 2nd Year, pp. 168-170. I Luke xi. 37-54. unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: 50 that the blood of all the prophets which were shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacha |