Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

Simon (whom he named Peter), and his brother Andrew; and James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

So he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,

Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

The slave replied, ‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.’

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Then Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.