Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you.
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
“Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.
He was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.