'Circle' in the Bible

Looking at those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

He said to them, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you [who have teachable hearts], but those who are outside [the unbelievers, the spiritually blind] get everything in parables,

But the disciples formed a circle around him, and he got up and went back into the city; and the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.