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Verse 8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren. The Jews his brethren in race rejected him, his family his brethren by blood were offended at him, his disciples his brethren in spirit forsook him and fled; one of them sold him, and another denied him with oaths and cursings. Alas, my Lord, what pangs must have smitten thy loving heart to be thus forsaken by those who should have loved thee, defended thee, and, if need be, died for thee. And an alien unto my mother’s children. These were the nearest of relatives, the children of a father with many wives felt the tie of consanguinity but loosely, but children of the same mother owned the band of love; yet our Lord found his nearest and dearest ones ashamed to own him. As David’s brethren envied him, and spake evil of him, so our Lord’s relatives by birth were jealous of him, and his best beloved followers in the hour of his agony were afraid to be known as having any connection with him. These were sharp arrows of the mighty in the soul of Jesus, the most tender of friends. May none of us ever act as if we were strangers to him; never may we treat him as if he were an alien to us: rather let us resolve to be crucified with him, and may grace turn the resolve into fact.

If you haven't noticed, catholics don't like context for this very reason.

“...Catholics don’t like context...”

This is a false accusation:

Catholics LOVE context!!

The 1859 Haydock commentary by priest and biblical scholar Rev. George Leo Haydock is our favorite and we not only like we love it!!

Also: The first concordance (Latin - from the Vulgate) was compiled by Dominican friars in 1230, long before the reformation.

The concordance is used as a key for referencing and cross referencing words to aid in understanding context in scripture passages in case you are unfamiliar with the concept. Catholics are HUGE fans!!

The problem isn’t that we don’t like context; the problem is that protestants don’t LIKE our context because we reference the passages that prove the need for the cooperation of free will for salvation rather than just repeating the sola fide passages. Catholics reference BOTH.