John the Baptist Prepares the Way

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,

Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd.

And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you.”

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

The Parable of the Rich Fool

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

The Parable of the Great Banquet

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’

It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”