¹³ Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

²¹ And they made one, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who was going by, coming from the country, go with them, so that he might take his cross.

¹ I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

² To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

¹³ But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

⁴ Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, There is your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his house.

¹⁶ You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

³⁵ Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

⁴⁹ And he put out his hand to his disciples and said, See, my mother and my brothers!

⁵⁰ For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.