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33⌄¶ “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.
This verse pairs with v34 in a way a dog owner will ask their pet, “Who’s a good dog?” before waiting a beat to shout, “You are!”
The rhetorical question of this verse sets up the big reveal in the next verse in a way that ties in the mistaken identity from the prior verses. The point the Roman loving Jesus Anointed wants to make is that Rome is the larger community to which they already belonged. And specifically that one’s blood family wouldn’t take precedence.
This is also a good time to point out that “thy mother and brothers”, or some variation of this, is repeated once for each of these five verses, from v31-35. The effect is of a transference, converting the blood family to the Roman family. With v35 really putting a fine point on it.
