These verses seem a bit "wow"...Jesus seems to be ignoring His own family when it seems all they want to do is see Him and talk with Him. However, if we research other gospels, we find this same passage in Mark. In Mark's gospel, this passage comes some verses later after we read that His own family denied who Jesus claimed to be and were ready to capture Him and turn Him in as "crazy". Jesus' own mother and brothers were turned against Him. Literally everyone Jesus loved was against Him, yet He kept His eyes on His Father and pressed on to what He knew was right!
In our Christian walk, we will find ourselves alone in our faith from time to time. Everyone we might have thought was with us may one day turn away and we will find ourselves standing at a crossroads...do we continue in the faith or give up? Now, Jesus' family eventually believed. His two brothers went on and preached and spread the word of Christ to all those they came in contact with. But, had Jesus crumbled to the knowledge that His own family was against Him, He would not have had the ministry that eventually converted His family, and us, to a life with an intimate relationship with Christ.
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