'Mother' in the Bible

Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him.

A crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.”

Answering them, He *said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”

Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, “Behold My mother and My brothers!

For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He *took along the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and *entered the room where the child was.

And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”

and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’;

but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’

you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother;

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother,

You know the commandments, ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,

There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He was laid.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.