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they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
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honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
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A Mother’s Request
Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
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How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
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Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
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Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her.
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Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.
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A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”
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“Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.
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Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
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Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
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But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
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She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” “The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.
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and brought back his head on a platter. He presented it to the girl, and she gave it to her mother.
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For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
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But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—
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then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.
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‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
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You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”
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“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel
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will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
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How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
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Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome.
