Section 3
"friends" have become His "brothers." Through His resurrection, His disciples have been regen erated (1 Pet. 1:3) with the divine life released by His life-imparting death, as indicated in John 12:24. All His disciples were regenerated in His resurrection. First Peter 1:3 says that we were re generated through Christ's resurrection. It was through His resurrection that the Lord imparted Himself as the Spirit into all His disciples. By receiving His life, they were all reborn, regener ated, and became His brothers. Remember that on the cross the Lord told His mother to take His disciple John as her son, and that He told His dis ciple to take her as his mother (19:26-27). On the day of His resurrection, the Lord's word on the cross was fulfilled. At that time, John became a brother to the Lord; hence, the Lord's mother became his mother.
By the resurrection of Christ, the disciples became the brothers of the Lord because they now had the same life as the Lord. The Lord regenerated them by His resurrection, and thus they were no longer merely disciples and friends but also His brothers. The Lord was the one grain of wheat that fell into the ground and died and grew up in resurrection to bring forth many grains for the producing of the loaf which is His