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NASB | Matthew 12:46 ¶ While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 12:46 ¶ While He was still talking to the crowds, it happened that His mother and brothers stood outside, asking to speak to Him. [Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21] |
Subject: Jesus brothers. |
Bible Note: 6days. Welcome to the Forum. I have been here a few years. I am not a Bible Alone Christian. I read the Bible with the mind of the Catholic Church and am not ashamed to say so. The Church was handing down its doctrine by oral Tradition for centuries before the canon of the New Teatament was finalized. You may read the Bible however you wish. ""All" is a pretty big word...you think your statement that all Catholics believe this might need to be examined?" No. One of the most common ways of identifying Catholic Christians is by what they believe about Mary. People do that to me all the time, including you. The first Christian missionaries to Japan (Catholics) were driven out of the country by the Shogun. The native Japanese coverts were crucufied in large numbers and those who survived went underground. Two hundred years later after Japan was reopened to the West, a group of Japaneses approached a priest at a Church established for the use of European merchants and diplomats in a port city. They identified themselves as Catholics, although they had had no priest for over two hundred years. They had passed down the faith orally and had baptised generations of their children. They told the priest that when they heard that Europeans had returned to Japan, they went secretly to investigate the foreign Churches. They had two criteria for distinguishing which Church was Catholic as opposed to any other type of Christian Church. Devotion to Mary and recognition of the authority of the Pope. Tell me people don't do the same today everywhere you go. For the story on Japan go here: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09744a.htm |