But he replied to the man who told him this, "Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?"
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man.
Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.
"Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"
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Stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!