Fascinating Detail About Jesus's Mother and Brothers

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What would it take for you to believe your brother was the Son of God?

 
 

Acts 1:12-14

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. 13 And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. 14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

 
 

Some quick points:

“All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer…”

That means that these Messianic Jews were disciplined in attending the prayer services at the Temple—they were structuring their lives around the hours of prayer.

 

“together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers” [or brothers and sisters]

I find it fascinating that the family of Jesus has come to believe in him as the Messiah, which means that he must have appeared to them after the Resurrection. (In the Gospels, Jesus’s siblings are definitely NOT his disciples.)

How cool is that?!