Matthew 12:50 Cross References - Moffatt

⁵⁰ Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that is my brother and sister and mother."

²⁰ So you will know them by their fruit. ²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

⁵ He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

⁴⁰ The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.'

⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.'

¹⁰ then Jesus said to them, "Have no fear! Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee; they shall see me there."

³⁵ Whoever does the will of God, that is my brother and sister and mother."

²¹ But he answered, "My mother and brothers are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

²⁷ While he was saying this, a woman shouted to him out of the crowd, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts you sucked!" ²⁸ But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you;

²⁶ So when Jesus saw his mother and his favourite disciple standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, there is your son!" ²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, "And, there is your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

¹⁷ Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"

²² for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you. ²³ Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People;

³⁰ and brought them out (after securing the other prisoners). "Sirs," he said, "what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."

³⁰ Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

²⁰ I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance.

²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

⁵ Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?

² for I feel a divine jealousy on your behalf; I betrothed you as a chaste maiden to present you to your one husband Christ,

⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

¹⁵ For what counts is neither circumcision nor uncircumcision, it is the new creation.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, ²⁷ in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

¹¹ In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

² older women like mothers, younger women like sisters — with perfect propriety.

¹¹ For sanctifier and sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹² saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,' ¹³ and again, 'I will put my trust in him,' and again, 'Here am I and the children God has given me.' ¹⁴ Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil) ¹⁵ and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death. ¹⁶ (For of course it is not angels that he succours, it is the offspring of Abraham.) ¹⁷ He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

²¹ so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls. ²² Act on the Word, instead of merely listening to it and deluding yourselves.

² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

¹⁷ and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do; ²⁴ he who obeys his commands remains within him — and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of Life, the right to enter the gates of the City!