And looking at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers and sisters to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”
And he was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went about among the villages teaching.
Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.