And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said: here are my mother and my brothers! The gesture — stretching out his hand toward his disciples — makes the definition visible before the words make it explicit. The disciples who are sitting at his feet learning are the ones he gestures toward as his true family. The family of Jesus is constituted by those who do the Father's will, and the disciples are already doing it by following him.

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