Are YOU A PART of GOD's FAMILY? | The Common Thread in Mark 3

Verses 5 and 35 serve as a beginning and an ending of the section. In the beginning, He looks at them with anger and grief at their unbelief. In the end, He looks around at those gathered and rewards their belief in Him and the will of the Father over His blood relations. John 1:9–13 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. [10] He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. [11] He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. [12] But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, [13] who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. (ESV) How might you become part of Jesus’ true family? the new Israel, the universal Church, and the Kingdom of God? Jesus told a religious leader named Nicodemus the answer when He said to Him that he must be born again which can also mean born from above or born anew.