'Brothers' in the Bible

By this time His mother and His brothers arrive, and standing outside they send a message to Him to call Him.

Now a crowd was sitting round Him; so they tell Him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, inquiring for you."

"Who are my mother and my brothers?" He replied.

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

And He allowed no one to accompany Him except Peter and the brothers James and John.

"In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,

but will receive a hundred times as much now in this present life--houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands--and persecution with them--and in the coming age the Life of the Ages.

There were once seven brothers, the eldest of whom married a wife, but at his death left no family.