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Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
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Verse 20. These brethren were not the sons of the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, as Helvidius wickedly taught; nor yet the sons of Joseph, by another wife; for, as S. Jerom writeth, not only Mary, but Joseph also, observed virginity. Contra Helvidium, c. ix. et ibidem, c. viii.—In the scriptural idiom, cousins are called brethren. B.
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