Blessed are they who hear the word of God and dare to obey it.
When Simon Peter received the message he whispered to Jesus, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, and they are anxious to talk with you.”
Mary did not realize the importance of the speech she was interrupting, and she was not aware that the authorities were going to show up at any moment to arrest Jesus. She thought that after so long from his family, and the fact that she and his brothers had actually shown the grace to come to him, that Jesus would immediately stop what he was doing and rush over to them. This was another one of those times when Jesus’ family did not understand his duty to his Father’s business. So Mary and his brothers were deeply hurt when Jesus did not come over to meet them, and instead they heard his musical voice pick up volume as he said “Say to my mother and my brothers that they should have no fear for me. The Father who sent me into the world will not abandon me; neither will any harm come to my family. Tell them to be of good courage and to put their trust in the Father of the kingdom. But after all, who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
Then stretching forth his hands toward all of his disciples assembled in the room, Jesus said “I have no mother; I have no brothers. Look at my mother and see my colleagues! Those who do the will of my Father in heaven are my mother, my brother, and my sister.” When Mary heard these words she collapsed in Jude’s arms. They carried her out to the garden so she could recover while Jesus finished speaking to the disciples. When done, Jesus had intended to go out and talk with his family but just then a messenger from Tiberias rushed in and told Andrew that the Sanhedrin would be there soon to arrest Jesus and take him to Jerusalem.
Andrew forgot that David had posted twenty-five guards around the house so that no one could take them by surprise, so he asked Jesus what they should do. Jesus stood in silence. Mary was in the garden recovering from having heard Jesus say “I have no mother.” Then a woman inside the house stood up and loudly said “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and blessed are the breasts that nursed you.”
Jesus turned aside from Andrew, and looking at the woman said “No. Blessed are they who hear the word of God and dare to obey it.”
Excerpt from: Son of Man: Urantia, Ch. 33, Last Days at Capernaum
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