Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother." NIV

First it was Your close relations who had come to sort You out and now Your mother and brothers have arrived. They can't come in to the house where You are because the house is heaving with people so all they could do was to get a message to You by word of mouth. I wonder what they were thinking? Mark doesn't tell us like he did with the more distant relations. We know that Your mother Mary was witness to all the miracles at Your birth and she treasured them up in her heart. Perhaps curiosity had got the better of her and she had asked Your flesh and blood brothers to bring her to You.

I'm sure that Mary wasn't like so many mums who treat their 30 something sons as little boys. She had seen You grow up. She had seen You with the teachers of the Law in the temple, deep in conversation, when You were just 12 in the temple.
She had seen You in the carpenter's shop and she had seen You respond to Your true father at the age of 30 and leave the family business and head for the lake of Galilee to begin choosing Your disciples. The brothers likewise would have known much of this.

So what would You do? Your mother and brothers are outside waiting.

But Your response, like so many of Your responses, totally took their breath away. "Who are my mother and brothers?" Gazing around at the crowd in the house, who are waiting on Your every word, You say "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother. Those who do God's will are my family now".
Was it an insult to Mary? No. She would always be Your physical mother. But those who do the will of God are no longer outcasts but adopted into Your family.
Wow. What a privaledge