²⁹ So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother ^[a]or wife or children or ^[b]lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, ^30 (A)who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with ^(B)persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

³⁰ because they ^(A)said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Jesus’ Mother and Brothers Send for Him^(B)

^31 (C)Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. ³² And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers ^[a]are outside seeking You.”

³³ But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” ³⁴ And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

^29 (A)And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother ^[a]or wife or children or ^[b]lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

²⁹ So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, ^(A)there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, ^30 (B)who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

Keeping the Word

²⁷ And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, ^(A)“Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”

²⁸ But He said, ^(B)“More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Seeking a Sign^(C)

^29 (D)And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks a ^(E)sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah ^[a]the prophet.