'Parents' in the Bible

And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to carry out for Him the custom of the Law,

Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware of it,

Her parents were amazed; but He instructed them to tell no one what had happened.

And He said to them, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,