Are You My Mother? (Matt. 12:38-50)

[Sung Psalm: 42]

Jesus points to his disciples and says, “Here are my mother and my brothers.”

If God is your Father, then who is your mother? I grew up believing that there was no mother in the Christian life. God is Father. That’s it.

But Jesus says that he has a mother – besides Mary! And notice, that Jesus does not say, “here are my mothers” – unlike the postmodern world, Jesus recognizes that the category of “mother” is a singular term!

Jesus says that his disciples are his mother as well as his brothers....