We are to understand without doubt that this happened close upon the foregoing; for he begins to tell it with the words, “And while he yet spake.” What can that “yet” mean but that it was at the very time He spake the foregoing things?
Mark also follows up that which He had said concerning blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, by saying, “And there came his mother and his brethren.” [Mark 3:31] Luke has not observed the order of action here, but has placed this earlier as he happened to recollect it.
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Also cites: De Cons. Ev., ii, 40
