For not even his brothers believed in him.
And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.
So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms; for the son treats the father with contempt, 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.
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