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his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these
things?"

Psalms 69:8-9 "I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien

unto my mother's children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me
up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon
me." We know this is a prophecy about Jesus, because after He drove the
money-changers out of the temple, "...his disciples remembered that it was
written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." (John 2:17)

Acts 1:14 "These all continued with one accord in prayer and
supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with

his brethren."

Mary was a sinner. She admitted she needed a "Saviour" in Luke 1:47.
And she wasn't exactly a responsible parent when she lost her 12-year-old
son (after being told of His importance by an angel in Luke 1:31-35) by
travelling a day's journey without bothering to confirm that He was
following! (Luke 2:42-44)

Though Jesus is God, Mary was not "the mother of God" as catholics like to
say. She was only Jesus' mother in the sense of giving birth to his human
body. This is obvious from the way Jesus talked to her as an adult no longer
under a mother's care. In John 2:3-4 "...the mother of Jesus saith unto
him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to
do with thee?..." Does that sound like Jesus is putting her on a pedestal?!

Here Jesus again downplayed the importance of Mary's role:

Matthew 12:46 "While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother
and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand
without, desiring to speak with thee.
48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my

mother? and who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said,
Behold my mother and my brethren!