John 19:27

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Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"

"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.