J.J. Blunt's Undesigned Scriptural Coincidences
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE VERACITY OF THE HOLY BIBLE
Introduction
Part One:
The Books of Moses
Part Two:
The Historical Scriptures
Part Three:
The Prophetical Scripture
Part Four:
The Gospels and Acts
Appendix:
The Gospels, Acts
and Josephus

VIII. THE MOTHER OF JESUS DESIRES TO SPEAK WITH HIM

Matth. 12:46.—“While he yet talked, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.”

What his mother’s communication might be the Evangelist does not record. It seems to have been made privately and apart, and was probably not overheard by any of his followers. But in the next chapter, St. Matthew very undesignedly mentions, that “when he was come into his own country, he taught them in the synagogue” (13:54). Hence, then, we see, that the interview with his mother and brethren was shortly succeeded by a visit to their town. The visit might, indeed, have nothing to do with the interview, nor does St. Matthew hint that it had anything whatever to do with it (for then no argument of veracity, founded upon the undesigned coincidence of the two facts, could have been here advanced), but still there is a fair presumption that the visit was in obedience to his mother’s wish, more especially as the disposition of the inhabitants of Nazareth, which must have been known to Christ, was unfit for his doing there any mighty works.