²⁷ Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her ^(A)to his own home.

² older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Honor True Widows

³ Honor widows who are really widows. ⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and ^(A)to repay their parents; for this is ^[a]good and acceptable before God.

^32 (A)Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, ^(B)each to his ^[a]own, and will leave Me alone. And ^(C)yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

⁴⁸ But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” ⁴⁹ And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My ^(A)brothers! ⁵⁰ For ^(B)whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

^11 (A)He came to His ^[a]own, and His ^[b]own did not receive Him.

¹⁸ My little children, ^(A)let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And by this we ^[a]know ^(B)that we are of the truth, and shall ^[b]assure our hearts before Him.

⁸ So now it was not you who sent me here, but ^(A)God; and He has made me ^(B)a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ^(C)ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

³⁴ And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

⁴⁰ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, ^(A)inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’