"Who is my mother? and who are my brethren!" ~ Matthew 12:48 ~

Matthew 12: 46-50

46- While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

47- Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

48- But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

49-And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

50-For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Christ sends a strong message here. Those who are ones real brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, etc., are those who do the will of the Father.

God is frist!!!

Jesus at his hyperbolic best. Gotta love him!

FFH said:

Christ sends a strong message here. Those who are ones real brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, etc., are those who do the will of the Father.

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Hmmm. I guess we're a world full of "only children."

Jesus sounds like he is speaking for himself.
Just because a person does the "will of my father" (God I assume) doesn't make them my brother or sister. Does it? He didn't say "our Father" like the prayer.

I suggest you look at:- http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat012.htm

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God.

A group of persons closely connected with the Saviour appears repeatedly in the New Testament under the designation "his brethren" or "the brethren of the Lord" (Matthew 12:46, 13:55; Mark 3:31-32, 6:3; Luke 8:19-20; John 2:12, 7:3-5; Acts 1:14; 1 Corinthians 9:5). Four such "brethren" are mentioned by name in the parallel texts of Matt 13:55 and Mark 6:3 (where "sisters" are also referred to), namely, James (also mentioned Galatians 1:19), Joseph, or Joses, Simon, and Jude; the incidental manner in which these names are given, shows, however, that the list lays no claim to completeness.
Again,
http://www.ccel.org/c/challoner/douayrheims/Matthew/12.html

Who is my mother?. . .This was not spoken by way of slighting his mother, but to shew that we are never to suffer ourselves to be taken from the service of God, by any inordinate affection to our earthly parents: and that which our Lord chiefly regarded in his mother, was her doing the will of his Father in heaven. It may also further allude to the reprobation of the Jews, his carnal kindred, and the election of the Gentiles.

That was great for Jesus and his boys. But how do you or I know that we are doing the will of God. Not think.. KNOW. Because I won't give up my parents and family for anything. Unless I know I've been directly instructed by God to do so.
Even if someone put a gun to my wifes head and asked me to denounce Christ. I would tell them "what christ?" unless (again) I knew God himself instructed me otherwise.

On the Mary "mother of God" that is a stretch at best. In the sense that she has some sort of magical power now that she gave birth to Jesus.
What about the mother of the Pope? Would she be holy in some way because she gave birth to him.