Hebrews 2:11

The one who sanctifies and those He sanctifies share a common origin, so Jesus is not ashamed to call believers His brothers. Christ identifies Himself closely with His redeemed people.

Cross-references · 17

• Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Heb 10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Heb 10:14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Heb 13:12Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
• Matt 12:48–50But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
• John 17:19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
• John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
• Heb 2:14Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
• Acts 17:28‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
• Mark 8:38For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”
• Matt 28:10Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”
• Luke 9:26For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

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