²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

² to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.

³ Honor widows who are really widows. ⁴ If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents, for this is pleasing in God’s sight.^(A)

³² The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.^(A)

⁴⁸ But to the one who had told him this, Jesus^[a] replied, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” ⁴⁹ And pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”^(A)

¹¹ He came to what was his own,^[a] and his own people did not accept him.

¹⁸ Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.^{(A) 19} And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him^(B)

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

³⁴ And looking at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

⁴⁰ And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’^(A)

¹² And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.