'Sisters' in the Bible
And His sisters, are they not [living here] among us? Where then did this Man get all this [wisdom and power]?”
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.
A crowd was sitting around Him, and they said to Him, “Look! Your mother and Your brothers are outside asking for You.”
Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are His sisters not here with us?” And they were [deeply] offended by Him [and their disapproval blinded them to the fact that He was anointed by God as the Messiah].
Jesus said, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up a house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,
who will not receive a hundred times as much now in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms—along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.
“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple.
So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, he [our brother and Your friend] whom You love is sick.”
to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters, in all purity [being careful to maintain appropriate relationships].