John 7:5

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.

His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,