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

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

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

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”

But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.

On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

So Peter invited them in and entertained them as guests. On the next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

So the disciples, each in accordance with his financial ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.