Mar 3:34 Behold my mother and my brethren!
Alternative: Look and you can see where I come from and who is with me.
In this verse, Christ says that you can answer his last question about where he comes from and who is with him just by using your eyes and brain. The word that is translated as "behold" is eido the word he always uses to indicates something that is readily apparent to all.
There is a song verse that goes, "We've got two lives, one we're given and the other one we make." Christ is saying something very similar to referring to which "house" he belongs. We each are born into a specific family, but that is the life we are given. Over time, we each build a new family and a new life. When Christ talks about our relationships, those are the ones that really count and really determine who we are.
Again, this relates back to everything Christ said about our inner demons. Those demons cannot control us unless we give them permission. We have to "tie up" the strength within us and give them the freedom to destroy our house and our lives.
If, on the other hand, we fight adversity with the strength we are given, we create a new house, and new family.
Everyone can see, just by looking at us, what decisions we have made. Just by looking, they can see those with whom we spend our time. They can see how we spend our time. The actual binds might be spiritual in the sense that the bond of faith and belief that bind us are invisible, but we are correctly judged by our associations because we choose the ideas and beliefs about life with which we ally ourselves.
"Behold" is from eido (eido), which means "to see," "to examine," and "to know." The form used here is the second person singular imperative. This word is also occasionally translated as "to know" in the Gospel.
Alternative: Look and you can see where I come from and who is with me.
In this verse, Christ says that you can answer his last question about where he comes from and who is with him just by using your eyes and brain. The word that is translated as "behold" is eido the word he always uses to indicates something that is readily apparent to all.
There is a song verse that goes, "We've got two lives, one we're given and the other one we make." Christ is saying something very similar to referring to which "house" he belongs. We each are born into a specific family, but that is the life we are given. Over time, we each build a new family and a new life. When Christ talks about our relationships, those are the ones that really count and really determine who we are.
Again, this relates back to everything Christ said about our inner demons. Those demons cannot control us unless we give them permission. We have to "tie up" the strength within us and give them the freedom to destroy our house and our lives.
If, on the other hand, we fight adversity with the strength we are given, we create a new house, and new family.
Everyone can see, just by looking at us, what decisions we have made. Just by looking, they can see those with whom we spend our time. They can see how we spend our time. The actual binds might be spiritual in the sense that the bond of faith and belief that bind us are invisible, but we are correctly judged by our associations because we choose the ideas and beliefs about life with which we ally ourselves.
"Behold" is from eido (eido), which means "to see," "to examine," and "to know." The form used here is the second person singular imperative. This word is also occasionally translated as "to know" in the Gospel.
posted by Gary Gagliardi at 1:42 PM
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