Jesus' Mother and Brothers

^31 (A)And his mother and his ^(B)brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. ³² And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers^[a] are outside, seeking you.” ³³ And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ³⁴ And ^(C)looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ^35 (D)For whoever ^(E)does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

The Parable of the Sower

4 Again ^(F)he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, ^(G)so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. ² And ^(H)he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: ³ “Listen! Behold, ^(I)a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ⁵ Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ⁶ And ^(J)when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, ^(K)it withered away. ⁷ Other seed fell among ^(L)thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. ⁸ And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and ^(M)a hundredfold.” ⁹ And he said, ^(N)“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”