ACC ~ John 7 v4 - 5

THE DISRESPECT OF JESUS’ RELATIVES

TERTULLIAN: Jesus was teaching the way of life, preaching the kingdom of God and actively engaged in healing infirmities of body and soul. But all that time, while strangers were keenly interested in him, his closest relatives were absent. By and by they turn up and keep outside, but they do not go in, because they did not think much of what was going on within. They do not even wait, as if they had something that they could contribute more necessary than that which he was so earnestly doing; rather, they prefer to interrupt him and to call him away from his great task. ON THE FLESH OF CHRIST 7. [1]

[1] ANF 3:528*.