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

“And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age – although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

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.