Matthew 12:46
Jesus’ Mother and Brothers
46While he was still speaking to the people, behold, ahis mother and his bbrothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. ▼▼Some manuscripts insert verse 47: Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak to you”
Matthew 13:55-56
55 dIs not this ethe carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not fhis brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”Mark 6:3
3 gIs not this hthe carpenter, the son of Mary and ibrother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And jthey took offense at him.John 7:3-5
3 kSo his brothers ▼▼Or brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 10
said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, mshow yourself to the world.” 5 nFor not even ohis brothers believed in him. Acts 1:13-14
13And when they had entered, they went up to pthe upper room, where they were staying, qPeter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon rthe Zealot and Judas the son of James. 14All these swith one accord twere devoting themselves to prayer, together with uthe women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and vhis brothers. ▼▼Or brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to men or to both men and women who are siblings (brothers and sisters) in God’s family, the church; also verse 15
1 Corinthians 9:5
5 xDo we not have the right to take along a believing wife, ▼▼Greek a sister as wife
as do the other apostles and zthe brothers of the Lord and aaCephas? Galatians 1:19
19But I saw none of the other apostles except James abthe Lord’s brother.
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