...command you ; henceforth I call you not servants, — but I have called you friends." And again, " Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."3 In reality, however, it is hardly possible, that a man can be virtuous in...

...33. mother and my brother? and he looked round about on them which sat about Him, and said, behold my mother and my brethren! for whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, my sister and mother." And to make manifest to his brethren their ultimate state, he said...

...father who is in heaven." " Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple." "Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and sister and mother." Jesus spake of Christians as " the light of the woild," as the "salt of the earth," and...

...shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father, &c. Matt. vii. 21. Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. Mark iii. 35. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. John iv. 34. Doing...

...appeared in his most favoured disciple, he met it with — get thee behind me, Satan. He declared — " Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother and my sister and mother." Mark iii. 35. Those, who are taught of God to love one another, will love after...

...is my mother or my brethren? and He looked round about on them which sat about Him, and said, behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."1 On another occasion, after our Lord had been speaking to the assembled multitudes,...

...all these thy prophets." And the scriptures use the word will in both of these senses. Mark 3, 35. " For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." There it is will of command. I Peter 3. 17. "It is better, if the will of God...

...numerous congregation listened with all attention, in the evening, to that important word of our Lord, " Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." Tuesday, 22. — One of the men confined for murder, earnestly importuned me...

...commandments of God, or to the duty which his law requires of man. Thus Jesus says, Mark iii. 35, " For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and my mother ;" by which he meant that whoever was obedient to the divine law, stood in...

...he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold, my mother 35 and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. CHAPTER IV. Jena speaks in Parables, and stills the Tempest. he began again...