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

For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was placed.

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!

He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices so that they might go and anoint him.

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for God),

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions – and in the age to come, eternal life.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!