Jesus answered, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
When his family heard about it, they set out to take charge of him, because people were saying, “He's gone mad!”
A crowd was sitting around Jesus, and they said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, and they want you.”
He looked at the people sitting around him and said, “Look! Here are my mother and my brothers!
Isn't he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters living here?” And so they rejected him.
He answered them, “Why did you have to look for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?”
“You must not tell me what to do,” Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.”
No longer, then, do we judge anyone by human standards. Even if at one time we judged Christ according to human standards, we no longer do so.
They showed greater loyalty to you Than to parents, brothers, or children. They obeyed your commands And were faithful to your covenant.
