He answered them and said, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!